of 18th century French incomes and inequality …

poverty and inequality in terms of incentives to design formulas to distribute earmarked fiscal resources to subnational …

speed up the decline in inequality levels and reduce poverty. This study presents an exhaustive and comprehensive analysis ….3 and 2.6 percentage points for US$5.5 and US$3.2 per day per person respectively, while inequality is reduced by almost one … are regressive and contribute to an increase in inequality. Finally, transfers in-kind for education and health services …

. 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 …

This paper argues that labor supply elasticities encode information about the determinants of income inequality. In the … inequality. Larger income effects and larger differences between income and hours worked elasticities imply preferences play an …

household income. The results show that nonfarm activity reduces rural income inequality by raising the income of poor …

decline in earnings inequality was even larger by other measures, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent … direct effect of minimum wages on inequality was muted …

household benefits from simply being located in a given country. The results show extensive inequality of access, within …

Using a new database of household surveys, this paper examines inequality among all individuals living in developing …. Inequality increased during the initial decade, regardless of the choice of inequality measure. The trend appears to have … reversed in the mid-2000s. Regional inequality is now almost entirely explained by within-country differences, while gaps in …