higher-order skills, increased coverage at lower levels of schooling, and the quality of schooling …

rural China. Structural change in favor of the nonfarm sector contributed to educational inequality in rural India. Evidence …

Can consumption taxes reduce inequality in developing countries? This paper combines household expenditure data from 31 … allow for informal consumption and calibrates it to the data to study the effects of different tax policies on inequality …. Contrary to consensus, the findings show that consumption taxes are redistributive, lowering inequality by as much as personal …

. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality … various effects. In total, two opposing effects, one on mean and one on inequality, compensate each other in terms of the … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …

speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … countervail the inequality-increasing impact of indirect taxes. At the bottom of the income distribution, targeted transfers are …