-taking is driven by those at the bottom of the income distribution. Third, in the presence of conspicuous consumption, access to …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 …

The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … 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 …-effective suggestions for designing survey modules to yield the most accurate measurements of consumption well-being, and offers new …

. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … novel survey for Senegal in which consumption data were collected at a disaggregated level, this paper quantifies these … various effects. In total, two opposing effects, one on mean and one on inequality, compensate each other in terms of the …

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare …