collaborative contact, through random assignment to homogeneous-caste or mixed-caste teams, and adversarial contact, through random … assignment of opponents. Collaborative contact increases cross-caste friendships and efficiency in trade, and reduces own-caste … favoritism. In contrast, adversarial contact generally reduces cross-caste interaction and efficiency. League participation …

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … associated with higher mortality. The death rate has a consistent strong positive relationship with the Gini coefficient for … of Covid-19 deaths with respect to the Gini coefficient, evaluated at sample means, is 0.9. Assuming the observed …

Rising income inequality since the 1980s in the United States has generated a substantial increase in saving by the top …

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …

Income inequality in Germany has been continuously increasing during the past 20 years. In general, this is understood … as an increase in inequality of wages due to changes in bargaining power of employees. However, the role of changing … paper is to quantify the proportion of changing household structures in the increase in inequality. We find that the rise in …

change in the Gini (based on consumption expenditure) by up to 0.03 points. Cross-country heterogeneity in this change is … large enough to alter the inequality ranking of numerous countries. The average inflation effect we detect is almost as … large as the change in the standard Gini measure over the period of interest. …

trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when …

a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in …