This paper examines whether the expansion of higher education has reduced inequality by providing more opportunities … Maximally Maintained Inequality theory and Relative Risk Aversion theory, I use logistic regressions to analyse data collected … of the privileged class based on the assumption that children of university-educated parents are more likely to take …

coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … process further, I create a new class of tax redistribution measures, based on the S-Gini, which differentially weight effects … personal income. From a political economy perspective, I also find some evidence that more inequality leads states to implement …

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of …, the UK, and the US between 1903 and 2003. Although this measure is not a good proxy for inequality within the bottom half …

changing assortative mating patterns on income inequality. Evidence from theoretical and mathematically calibrated models … variables, we find some evidence to suggest that assortative mating has had an influence on the increase in income inequality in …

-biased technological change, social norms about inequality, and the internationalisation of the market for English-speaking CEOs. …

The relationship between income inequality and national savings is theoretically ambiguous, and past empirical studies … have delivered mixed results. We revisit the question using a newly available source of data on inequality: the income … to reject more than modest effects in either direction. We view this as suggesting that inequality at the top end of the …

there is much concern about local capture in communities with large inequality, the ease of identifying the poor could …

Several cross-country studies have observed a negative correlation between inequality and interpersonal trust. Using … data from 59 countries, I instrument for inequality using the relative size of the mature-aged cohort, and find that a rise … in inequality reduces trust. …