average percentile rank of those entering teacher education fell from 74 to 61, while the average rank of new teachers fell …

levels of education. Raising high school attainment appears to yield the highest annual benefits, with per-year gains as high … benefits of education are higher towards the top of the distribution, but the participation effects are higher towards the …

higher return to education than previous studies, we believe that this is primarily due to the better measurement of income … of return to schooling range from 9% to 39%. Overall, our findings suggest the Australian rate of return to education …

countries, I find that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures … measures of inequality over periods when alternative income distribution measures are of low quality, or unavailable …

coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … personal income. From a political economy perspective, I also find some evidence that more inequality leads states to implement … redistribution and inequality. …

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 …

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