We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

We link a model of inequality and redistribution where multiple steady states can emerge, to the recent literature on …

use of native slavery. The slavery variables are highly correlated with current levels of inequality. The correlation … between our slavery use variables and inequality is stronger than that observed between inequality and development, geographic … past may be an important determinant of the levels of inequality observed today across the globe. …

This paper seeks to examine the effect of income inequality on the structure of tax policies. We first use a simplified … remains robust across various alternative measures of income inequality and most importantly through alternative political … regimes. In addition, our analysis investigates the role of the tax structure on the relationship between income inequality …