a panel data set for the US constructed from micro data, I find support for the hypothesis that within race inequality …This paper studies the joint effect of fractionalization and inequality on the size of government. Within a political … the well-being of those belonging to their own group than the rest of the population. Under general assumptions, both …

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 …

, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data … revealed much lower levels of subjective well]being among blacks relative to whites. Investigating various measures of well]being …, we find that the well]being of blacks has increased both absolutely and relative to that of whites. While a racial gap in …

History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple rent-seeking model of conflict which is …

-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the wellbeing of …

We estimate and decompose family income-related inequality in child health in the US and analyze its dynamics using the … income-related child health inequality remains stable from early childhood into adolescence. The main factor underlying … income-related child health inequality is family income itself, although other factors, such as maternal education, also play …

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

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 …