male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings … education but the other one does not. Because of the high degree of assortative matching according to education on the marriage … one, they have the most to gain from divorcing and going back to the marriage market. This incentive becomes stronger if …

marriage market into a significantly larger share of household income. Hence, men's incentive to invest in education decreases …This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse … women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household …

In this paper we discuss the importance of families for understanding economic inequality. Family structure can in … principle be an amplifier or mitigator of economic inequality. We describe three channels on how families shape economic … inequality. First, how people match to form families matters for inequality across families. Second, parental investments in …

inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). …

significant decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher degree of positive assortative mating; (v) more children …

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …

In this paper we use administrative data from the social security to study income dynamics and income risk inequality … inversely related to income and age, and income risk inequality increases markedly in the recession. These findings are robust …

inequality over the life cycle and of the individual-level degree of consumption insurance against persistent earnings shocks …

documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed …, education and the role of elites. Finally, we conduct a "replication" exercise with some seminal papers in the literature …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …