expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy … may exacerbate income inequality in the long run if for the less skilled dynasties, the benefits of more public spending …-induced tax base erosion is not severe, an expansive income tax policy indeed enhances future human capital for all dynasties, and …

hypotheses. First, there is no disparity in the income and returns to education benefits of the shift to democracy across gender … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education … democracy, gender differences exist. Specifically, I find on average higher income benefits for men post democracy. Nigeria …

of the urban population in work-active ages and use data from the Chinese Income Project (CHIP) covering eastern, central … being employed as a worker of high rank. There is relatively little income inequality among workers of high rank as well as … among workers of middle rank. Mean income and household wealth per capita of highly-ranked workers developed more favorably …

inequality below median income and increases it above median income. There is also evidence in our data that education and …

experiment. On average, we found positional concerns neither in income per se nor in income from aid projects among the farmers …. These results support the claim that positional concerns are positively correlated with absolute level of income of a …