countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …

on the basis of defendant race. These results are consistent with racial prejudice on the part of white jurors, black …. Simulations of the model suggest that jurors of each race are heterogeneous in the standards of evidence that they require to … convict and that both black and white defendants would prefer to face jurors of the same race. …

latter see it as rooted in the US legacy of racial/ethnic inequality, and especially in racial residential segregation …, whereas the former ignore race. This paper traces this disjuncture to two sources. What is missing in the social science view … discrimination in credit markets have, ironically, had the effect of making race analytically invisible. Because of these explanatory …

Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in …

quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases … in a panel of countries, the paper finds that inequality has a negative effect on both institutional quality and …

disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …