econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … are a return to “normal” levels (as estimated by fixed effects). Conversely, inequality and poverty in Brazil and Chile …Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the ‘re-centered influence function’ method to decompose …-in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for … standardization of test scores for inequality indices, and the possible sample selection biases arising from the Program of … International Student Assessment (PISA) sampling frame. The measure of inequality of educational opportunity is given by the share …

The paper provides an examination into the measures of multidimensional inequality proposed in the past few years …

characterized by increasing income inequality and poverty. An axiomatically modified Datt-Ravallion decomposition, that separates … changes in poverty rates into mean and inequality components, will illustrate how each of them has contributed to those … changes. Contrary to the claims of much of the recent cross-country literature, income inequality does not appear stable in …

disparities. Comparing polarization and inequality, we find similarities, but also some differences. Our results therefore … underscore the importance of studying polarization as distinct from traditional inequality. …

The article analyses the joint determinants of inequality and growth with a special emphasis on public spending … inequality and growth, as more generally government expenditures seem to act counter-cyclically and inequality reducing. Also …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …