unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows …

endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of … opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in human capital formation. Using numerical solutions we study how the …-preserving spread and a change in the support. The results suggest that a higher degree of inequality of opportunities is associated …

can thus increase inequality in the long-run. Depending on the elasticity of substitution between capital and unskilled … show that including the transition period in the welfare evaluation lowers the inequality effects of capital tax reduc …

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …

The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government … expenditure). We study the effects of inequality on the size (and structure) of redistributive programs in both perfectly … case and that in the latter case an increase in inequality can be associated with a fall in the tax rate. We find also that …