. Besides exploring cross-country variation in public education, how its low level can lead to a poverty trap and how its high …

expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …

technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain households are poverty trapped, that the initial distribution of wealth …

In Becker et al. (2013a,b), we proposed a theory to explain giving behaviour in dictator experiments by a combination … of selfishness and a notion of justice. The theory was tested using dictator, social planner, and veil of ignorance …

theory predicts. Empirical evidencesuggests that social and political instability is a major reason for thedivergence between …

estimate the entire income distribution; computing alternativeinequality indexes and poverty estimates. Finally, we have used … our broad1y comparabledataset to examine international patterns of inequality and poverty. …