The quest for status is a powerful motivator, but does it affect inequality? This paper presents a novel lab experiment … that was designed and conducted to identify the relationship between inequality, status signaling, debt, and conspicuous … finance exacerbates inequality. The results point to a vicious cycle of inequality and costly borrowing …

through to growth as observed in household surveys. When holding within-country inequality unchanged and letting GDP per … to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

Although household well-being is anchored in long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely … questions. Identification stems from diary-recall differences in reports from the same household, does not require these reports … insights for interpreting and reconciling diary-recall differences in household expenditure surveys …

Can consumption taxes reduce inequality in developing countries? This paper combines household expenditure data from 31 … allow for informal consumption and calibrates it to the data to study the effects of different tax policies on inequality …. Contrary to consensus, the findings show that consumption taxes are redistributive, lowering inequality by as much as personal …

percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence …

into a market-oriented economy. This paper offers a comprehensive study of inequality and mobility patterns for Russia … findings show rising income levels and decreasing inequality, with the latter being mostly caused by pro-poor growth rather …, leading to less long-term inequality than short-term inequality. The analysis also finds that switching from a part-time job …

This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for … 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on … detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the first-order effects of the elimination of import tariffs on household …