2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …

equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have … unconditional quantile partial effects of children along UK and US men's earnings distributions. In the 1970s, most UK and US … fathers enjoyed a modest premium regardless of their relative earnings, which decreased as number of children increased. This …

across countries and over time is not well understood. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database, I investigate …

-left (2005-10). Income inequality diminished during the restoration of democracy, but started to grow steadily in the mid-1990s … reduction in labour income inequality and the introduction of noncontributory public transfers schemes. …

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying …

The paper uses the flexibility of household survey data to align their income categories and recipient units with the … income categories and units found in data produced by tax authorities. Our analyses, based on a standardized definition of … fiscal income, allow us to locate, for top-income groups, the sources of discrepancy. We find, using the cases of the United …

Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across …, implying that natural disasters may serve as a means of creative destruction. This effect is prominent among uppermiddle-income …

to the cases in which the mean income of the poor increases proportionally more than that of the non-poor. A new index is …