and poverty. We find that wealth inequality reduces economic growth, but when we control for the fact that some …, while politically unconnected wealth inequality, income inequality, and initial poverty have no significant effect …A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …

This paper analyzes the intra-household distribution of wealth and welfare in the United States, within a theoretical … leads to wealth inequalities. However, the intra-household processes appear to be efficient in terms of welfare, as … spouses' estimated indirect utility. Our results shed light on the spouses' wealth shares and the sharing rule guiding the …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

This paper describes trends in parental wealth homogamy among union cohorts formed between 1987 and 2013 in Denmark …. Using high-quality register data on the wealth of parents during the year of partnering, we show that the correlation … between partners' levels of parental wealth is considerably lower compared to estimates from earlier research on other …