distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

The paper examines the effect of heterogeneity in individual human capital formation on cross-country income inequality … equilibrium, on the intra-generational income inequality in both the investing and receiving countries. …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

, ‘pollution havens’ emerge in countries where environmental regulation is ‘over-lax.’ We examine the impact of pollution abatement … equilibrium model of trade and pollution nesting the pollution haven motive for trade with the factor endowment motive. We analyze …

We take a decentralized approach to regulating environmental pollution in settings where each agent's pollution … possibly affects all others. There is no central agency to enforce pollution abatement or coordinate monetary transfers …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality … with usingincomes across time or place to compare welfare. Our calculation of world height inequalityindicates that in … contrast with similar research on income inequality, within-country variation is thesource of most inequality, rather than the …

, have lowered pollution intensities strongly; induced improvements in productivity have further reduced them; and trade … integration into the EU has had insignificant effects on emission intensities. We also do not find evidence of within-EU pollution …