We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last … changes in industry and age composition to the change in the gender composition of top earners. A large proportion of the … gender gaps over the life cycle, and gender differences among lifetime top earners …

mobility, particularly among men, but it somewhat exacerbated the gender gap in adult earnings …

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the …

The dismal growth performance of Africa is the worst economic tragedy of the XXth century. We document the evolution of … worsening of various income inequality indexes and we estimate poverty rates and headcounts. We then analyze some of the central … rates Africa would have enjoyed if these key determinants had taken OECD rather than African values. Expensive investment …

Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments … economic progress; that income inequality and urban bias are not so extreme as to foreclose prospects for more rapid growth and … poverty alleviation; and that the constraints imposed by Sub-Saharan Africa's human and physical geography are not core …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since independence, using census data …

Despite the past centuries' economic setbacks and challenges, are there reasons for optimism about Africa's economic … sets of unrecognized "latent assets." First, success in African society is talent driven and Africa has experienced high … can be a critical basis for building better institutions. Third, Africa is "cosmopolitan." Africans are the most …

agriculture during the pre-industrial era. We focus on Africa, where by combining anthropological records of groups with …