This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys … assets, and wealth held through trusts. Both household surveys and tax data remain insufficient to properly capture capital …, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by …

Davies et al. (2008, 2011) provided the first estimates of the global distribution of wealth, using 2000 as the … learned about trends in the level and distribution of global wealth for the period 2000-14. Finally, the paper discusses the …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

individuals' fairness perceptions regarding wealth inequality. It begins from the premise that prominent measures of inequality …'s contribution highlights the importance of 'intuitive' measures of political matters such as wealth inequality. It further indicates …

average household wealth indicators, there is a strong suggestion of increasing group inequalities between 1997 and 2017 … and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using …, the differences in average wealth between groups, if perceived, may feed grievances. They should be better understood so …

standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …

Sub-Saharan Africa continues to post one of the highest gender gaps in educational outcomes in the world. Gender gaps … in educational outcomes might be attributed to an uneven allocation of household resources towards the schooling of boys … explores two potential sources of gender bias: bias in the decision to enrol/keep boys and girls in school; and bias in the …

We assess the effect of female bargaining power on the share of educational expenditures in the household budget in … India. We augment the collective household model by endogenizing female bargaining power and use a three-stage least squares … approach to simultaneously estimate female bargaining power, per capita household expenditure and budget share of education …

household. In line with previous evidence on gender discrimination in Albania, the results show that the female shares of … resources within the family and find evidence that the time spent abroad by the male migrant increases gender inequality (by …

structural parameters of the post-double selection LASSO estimations show that a reduction in household gender wage gap … significantly enhances women's empowerment. Also, a decline in household gender wage gap results meaningfully in improving household … welfare. Particularly, the increasing effect on women's welfare resulting from decreases in household gender wage differences …