or societal laws benefiting religious citizens. Rising income inequality can, however, lead some of the rich to form a …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

strong incentives for product innovations (new luxuries). We show that the inequality-growth relationship depends on which …

approaches seem to be exaggerated, proposing artificial breaks in the historical process. Inequality was at a high level by the … towards skill-intensive products, inequality gave rise to serious shortcomings in terms of human capital accumulation, and the …

inequality. This paper reviews this approach and reports a number of results from recent studies. …

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 …

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. …