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 … intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that …

inequality. Contrarily to a widely spread view, modern economic growth did not kill inheritance. …This paper attempts to document and account for the long run evolution of inheritance. We find that in a country like … France the annual flow of inheritance was about 20%-25% of national income between 1820 and 1910, down to less than 5% in …

We examine the determinants of income inequality and mobility in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply. Individuals …

level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is … completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn to inequality in human capital and focus on a Mincerian production … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …