This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … schooling are the main reason why income distribution has not improved in the 1990s. However, the lack of progress in income …

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …

The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This …

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …