exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250,000 individuals in 140 countries …

inequality, and polarization in policy preferences. The main innovation lays in the political process determining capital … speaking reflecting inequality) has somewhat interesting effects along the transitional path towards balanced growth. Hereby …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …

Since the late twentieth century there has been a growing interest in academic and political circles on inequality. In … research about Inequality since the 1950s; (ii) the development of a new method of analysis that combines (ii-a) a quantitative …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

the recent rise in life expectancy inequality in the US and the entire change in Denmark. Our analysis shows that the … in life expectancy inequality. Rather, the dramatic 50% reduction in cardiovascular deaths, which benefited both rich and …