In this paper, we study the relationship between income inequality and stock market returns. We develop a quantitative … general equilibrium model that links shifts in both labour and capital income inequality to stock market variables. An …

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 …

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 …

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 …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

Section 4 we demonstrate that in this extended setup Probit - estimation on panel data sets does not pose a specific problem …Mundlak (1978) proposed the addition of time averages to the usual panel equation in order to remove the fixed effects …