neighborhoods, schools and households (spouses), can have important consequences for the acquisition of human capital and inequality …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market where polygyny is not ruled out. Our model demonstrates, however, that while higher male inequality generates more … polygyny, higher female inequality produces a more monogamous equilibrium. Moreover, we derive how female inequality in the …

possible implications of this key fact by surveying and adapting literature on growth and inequality. I focus especially on the …

We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a … differences across households and leads to long run equality, while below the threshold, inequality is high and persists more …

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the ‘exporting’ of inequality across borders; and how this, in …