inequality, and the racial wealth gap. The results show that inflation boosted the real income of the middle wealth quintile by a … income. Inflation also boosted mean and especially median real wealth growth, reduced wealth inequality, and lowered the …

and inequality effects. I show theoretically that even when AI improves the productivity of low-skill workers in certain … tasks (without creating new tasks for them), this may increase rather than reduce inequality. Empirically, I find that AI … advances are unlikely to increase inequality as much as previous automation technologies because their impact is more equally …

Recent work on wealth inequality based on the capitalization method wherein aggregate wealth totals are distributed in …

share of Smith et al. (2022) is close to the one found in Saez and Zucman (2020) and estimates of US wealth inequality are …

"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies … inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD … applies two new concepts in making those assessments -- what we call the inequality possibility frontier and the inequality …