In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

safety at given own-income. The own-income effect is nonlinear, such that inequality attenuates the aggregate concern for …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- and between-country inequality … with using incomes across time or place to compare welfare. Our calculation of world height inequality indicates that in … contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is the source of most inequality, rather than the …

, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. …