wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth … accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create incentives for education, work effort, and entrepreneurship. We would … expect considerable wealth mobility over the life cycle if the life-cycle motives and incentives to accumulate are strong and …

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 …

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. …

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

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 …