This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the 19th and early 20th century …. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was associated with a lower speed of human capital formation. Not all talents …

This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the 19th and early 20th century …. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was associated with a lower speed of human capital formation. Not all talents …

We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in … nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is … independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures and instruments are calculated based on grid-level data for existing …

inequality are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases … by 20 percent in the short-run, and by more than 55 percent after 50 years. The world average index of inequality … identifying assumptions. We also analyze partial liberalization shocks: efficiency and inequality effects are roughly proportional …

and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule …

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

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 …

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 …