intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable …

live in the same community but segregate by schooling. When inequality is smaller, we observe the typical sorting by income … across communities. The effect of inequality on the quality of public schools depends on the relative size of the housing … market of each community. When inequality increases, if the housing conditions of the community in which rich and poor …

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … wealth inequality is shown to be monotonically reduced along the time-span, the short-and the long-run impacts on income … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may …

Since Collier and Hoeffler (1998, 2004), it has been supported that inequality, measured at national level, does not … inequality in localized conflicts. We argue that previous findings might be biased by the myopic nature of cross-country analysis …. Consistently with the model, Probit estimations indicate that income inequality measured at municipal level was significant in …

This paper provides an additional channel through which inequality may influence growth, when labor migration is taken …, 2004) shows that a brain drain can have a positive impact only when it is associated with low inequality (in income or …

inequality, and social welfare at the steady state. The laissez-faire situation is taken as the bench mark. …