between other measures of democracy, based on civil liberties and political rights, and inequality. The transition experience … appears to have caused a high degree of economic inequality, and democratization in the form of franchise expansion has …

While standard political economy theories suggest a moderating effect of democratization on income inequality … first, that prevailing ideology may be an important determinant of inequality and, second, that the democratization effect … income groups, hence democratization may have only a negligible effect on inequality. On the other hand, in societies where …

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

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 …

Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative … rents-induced inequality. …

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 …

eliminate the unobserved heterogeneity term and at the same time to identify the parameters of the model. We then propose GMM … finite sample performance of our GMM estimators. …

offers various opportunities to derive moment conditions that result in consistent GMM estimators. We consider three sources …

that emotional attachment and risk attitudes play important roles in the fertility-crime relationship. Finally, results for …