This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially … income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption … income inequality during the transition. However, the relative well-being of different socioeconomic groups was altered and …

How does inequality motivate people and at what cost? We develop a model of perpetual youth with heterogeneous upward … survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also …

one of the potential explanations for the fall in income inequality observed during the past three years. However, a … further reduction in income inequality remains an important challenge for the future. Greater access to a quality education …

Topics,” pp. 151–156, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979; and Math. Ann.266, 1984, 519–537) and the Ky Fan minimax inequality by …

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and growth by proposing that the … disparities in empirical studies derive from the fact that they have not accounted for the level of inequality as a factor that … inequality exert a positive correlation with economic growth while high levels have a negative one. Additionally, and more …

urban inequality, a reduction in urban poverty, and a lower level of overall inclusive growth of a city. …

and negative relationship between inequality and share of nutritional consumption as reflected in the consumption of food …. Finally the paper looks at the empirical relationship between inequality and consumption across districts within states of … India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption patterns via status effect cannot be rejected. In fact the impact …