One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …

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 …

inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping …

because European nations were in effect trying to fight market tendencies towards increased inequality. In the United States …, with its much more limited welfare state, there has been a striking rise in inequality; a stylized model suggests that the …

of the Thatcher reforms. The estimated impact turns out to be sensitive to the degree of `inequality aversion' of the …