Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using … different contextual country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since the 1980s. We first …

claimed that "the more we target benefits at the poor, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality". The basic …

identity on individuals' intrinsic response to incentives, and consequently on widening income inequality. …

rather than another. In this paper, we develop a theory for ranking distribution functions. Our theory offers a general … asymptotic distribution theory for empirical dominance criteria where it is demonstrated that the associated empirical processes …

households. Using household level data on debt accumulation during 2001-2012, we show that low-income households in high-inequality … regions accumulated less debt relative to income than their counterparts in lower-inequality regions, which negates the … during the 2000s. We present a model in which banks use applicants' incomes, combined with local income inequality, to infer …

childbearing between socioeconomic groups raise concerns about child wellbeing in poor families and future inequality. This paper …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …