This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …-monotonic: inequality ?rst increases with the stock of democracy before falling. The paper also presents evidence that education may be a …

This paper assesses inequality of opportunity in educational achievement using the Human Opportunity Index methodology … inequality in most of the countries in the sample. Consistent with what has been documented previously in the literature, the … paper also finds a strong and stable correlation between inequality of opportunity and public spending on school education …

This paper uses cross-section data for 107 countries to explore the relationship between gender inequality and economic … growth. The paper departs from the literature by using a broad measure of gender inequality that goes well beyond gender … inequality in education, which has been the focus of most studies. Another novelty of the paper lies in exploring heterogeneity …

their lives. This disconnect is partly explained by increased inequality in the region, an increasing sense of unfairness in …

-based general equilibrium theory of income determination and income inequality. …This volume presents a collection of studies on the dynamics of income inequality based on micro data. Using a simple … in accounting for household income and its contribution to inequality. It casts doubt on the grand theories of growth and …

‘Golden Decade’, in particular the decline in inequality, will hold in this less supportive environment, and discuss …

This paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries, including 20 …

inequality, with the region's Gini coefficient falling from 55.6 to 51.8. Previous studies have warned about the sustainability … of such a decline, and this paper presents evidence of stagnation in the pace of reduction of income inequality in Latin … America since 2010. This phenomenon of stagnation is robust to different measures of inequality and is largely attributable to …

inequality. We also study the limit value of the discount rate for very long term investments, and the type of information that …