In the standard model of corruption, the rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's education, reflecting … Bangladesh, this paper finds strong evidence that corruption in schools is doubly regressive: (i) the poor are more likely to pay … implies that "free schooling" is free only for the rich and corruption makes the playing field skewed against the poor. This …

income inequality. In line with the fall in income inequality in the region, the paper documents a widespread, although … modest, decrease in the share of the population that believes income distribution is unfair. The fall in the perception of … income inequality for 17 of the 18 countries for which microdata are available. The analysis reveals that unfairness …

Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth …

This paper investigates the link between inequality and demand for redistribution by looking at how individuals form … their perceptions of inequality. Most of the literature analyzing demand for redistribution has focused on objective … inequality, rather than subjective perceptions of inequality. However, a model that links demand for redistribution to subjective …

Expectations of future socioeconomic mobility are an important determinant of cur- rent policy preferences. But how may … these expectations be formed? Using Life in Transition survey data for a large set of transition economies and several … getting access to opportunities, such as a good job or university education, and expectations of future socioeconomic mobility …

The main goal of this paper is to document and analyze the long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity and thus … evolution of inequality of opportunity is measured for a period of about two decades for the whole populations, as well as for … different birth cohorts. Relative inequality of opportunity represents an important portion of total income inequality, with …

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …

's 2015 fiscal policy reduces inequality; the largest reduction is created by in-kind public service expenditures on education … households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel …

to 2030 under different assumptions about growth and inequality. This allows for quantifying the interdependence of the … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in … inequality and relies on the Model-based Recursive Partitioning machine-learning algorithm to model how growth in GDP is passed …