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This paper surveys the empirical literature on the association between growth on inequality in less developed countries …, with a particular emphasis on labor market inequality. Crosscountry studies failed to find a clear link from growth to … inequality increases with growth. The paper argues that the methodologies used in many of the empirical applications, designed to …
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its evolution with economic growth. The social discount rate (SDR) should be adjusted to account for intragenerational and … intergenerational inequality aversion and for risk aversion. If growth increases (reduces) intra-generational inequality, the SDR is … lower (higher) and the SCC higher (lower) than along an inequality-neutral growth path, especially if intra-generational and …
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This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...
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We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of endogenous fertility and school choice. Household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in...
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growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …
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We study how attitudes to inheritance taxation are influenced by information about the role of inherited wealth in society. Using a randomized experiment in a register-linked Swedish survey, we find that informing individuals about the large aggregate importance of inherited wealth and its link...
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What matters for individuals' preferences for redistribution? In this paper we show that consequentialist beliefs about inequality - beliefs about how economic inequality changes the crime rate or the quality of democratic institutions, for example - have a large causal impact on individuals'...
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To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully …
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We study a growth model with two types of agents who are heterogeneous in their degree of family altruism. We prove … linking economic growth and income inequality. …
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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...
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