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

social welfare has important implications for both the economics of climate change and comparative development. …

economic development, and find that democracies grow faster than autocracies. Furthermore, we illustrate how the estimation …

per capita affect income inequality and how they differ. The results suggest a U-shaped relationship of both measures of … GDP per capita is used, inequality is higher, leading to the conclusion that countries with policies that inflate GDP … behavioral similarity between the income of the richest 10% of population and income inequality. Lastly, there is also a …

heterogeneity. When altruism heterogeneity is low, income inequality follows an inverse U-shaped pattern relative to the level of … altruism, which is consistent with the cross-country Kuznets curve. When altruism heterogeneity is high, income inequality … linking economic growth and income inequality. …