Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents ́and childrenś economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …

Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new … measure of unfair inequality that reconciles two widely-held fairness principles: equality of opportunity and freedom from …

five Brazilians' macro-regions, from 1920 to 2016. The use of non-parametric statistics reveals rough short-term paths of …

is that inequalities within European regions make an important contribution to overall inequality in the EU. Against this …-based policies can reduce inequalities between regions, they tend to increase inequalities within regions. The chapter concludes with …