implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … validation tests, is superior to proxying welfare with asset ownership in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …

elasticities and the welfare effects of gasoline taxes. A novel approach allows us to model a discrete-continuous household choice … consumer heterogeneity. The mean elasticity of demand for gasoline is -0.67, but with tremendous variation across location and … income. We find that rural households have 30 percent more negative welfare impacts than urban households from gasoline taxes …

men than for women. Moreover, ignoring within household inequality, as implicitly done by traditional equivalence scales …, underestimates total inequality among individuals. …

income component. This result gives a clarification of the difference between contribution to inequality and (marginal …) effect on inequality. …