We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … inequality. After summarizing both design-based and quantitative work in this area, we propose directions for future work. Our …

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning … differentials reflect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality …-of-Africa migration. Exploring the roots of inequality within the US population, we find supporting evidence for our hypothesis: variation …

and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …

industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current …