domestic prices. Under perfect pass-through, the mandate leads to a reduction in rural poverty by about 39 million people, and … poverty increase by a total of 8 million people. Our study suggests that the US biofuel mandate may lead to modest increase in …

We examine the relationship between capitalism and income inequality for a large sample of countries using an adjusted … economic freedom index as proxy for capitalism and Gini coefficients based on gross-income as proxy for income inequality. Our … results suggest that there is no robust relationship between economic freedom and income inequality. In addition, we analyze …

This paper studies the hypothesis of an inverted-U-shaped relationship between spatial inequality and economic … development. The theory of Kuznets (1955) and Williamson (1965) suggests that (spatial) inequality first increases in the process …

This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional …

It is argued that the concept of well –being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing … happiness inequality in happiness studies.We plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up a new …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …

inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …, inequality and growth bear a non-linear relationship: for low values of inequality, economic growth rate is an inverted U …

develop a dynamic two-region model, in which each region suffers from global warming, but also has an inequality aversion over … current consumption allocations. Inequality aversion generally lifts the consumption path of the poor region, while the rich … region must take a greater share of the climate burden. Furthermore, with inequality aversion, the optimal climate policy …