“...Qualitative studies of vote buying find the practice to be common in many Latin American countries, but quantitative studies using surveys find little evidence...”

“...We develop a statistical framework to use satellite data on night lights to augment official income growth measures. For countries with poor national income...”

“...Using an instrumental variables strategy, we estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives from...”

“...The well-known Easterlin paradox points out that average happiness has remained constant over time despite sharp rises in GNP per head. At the same time, a...”

“...This paper critically surveys the large and growing literature estimating the elasticity of taxable income with respect to marginal tax rates using tax return...”

“...This article assesses the consequences of poverty between a child's prenatal year and 5th birthday for several adult achievement, health, and behavior...”

“...This paper analyzes a tax enforcement field experiment in Denmark. In the base year, a stratified and representative sample of over 40,000 individual income...”

“...A recent literature has constructed top income shares time series over the long run for more than twenty countries using income tax statistics. Top incomes...”

“...Many scholars have argued that once “basic needs” have been met, further rises in income are not associated with further increases in subjective well-being. We...”

“...This paper proposes a model of cab drivers' labor supply, building on Henry S. Farber's (2005, 2008) empirical analyses and Botond Köszegi and Matthew Rabin's...”