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

-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. …

We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …

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 …

We develop a polygenic index for individual income and examine random differences in this index with lifetime outcomes … in a sample of ~35,000 biological siblings. We find that genetic fortune for higher income causes greater socio … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic …

Two family-specific lotteries take place during conception— a social lottery that determines who our parents are and … which environment we grow up in, and a genetic lottery that determines which part of their genomes our parents pass on to us … socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income …

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 …