This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the … that while income inequality is similar to that of the United States (US), wealth inequality is barely one-third that of … SSA as in the US, the share of total wealth accumulated by the income-rich in SSA is one-fifth of its US counterpart. The …

-section data sets from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to estimate impacts on efficiency, quality, and equity. The …

household surveys, this paper assesses the relationship between patient wealth and the quality and price of antenatal care in … the Democratic Republic of Congo. Overall, the analysis finds a significant wealth-quality gradient, with a standard … deviation increase in wealth being associated with an increase of 4 percentage points in protocol compliance. This increase in …

any analysis based on household surveys, these results could miss important increases in inequality if they are …

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored …

Wealth and gender inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is measured as the association between subject … competency and wealth and gender using the OECD?s Programme for International Student Assessment. Wealth inequity is found to … occur not through disparate household characteristics but rather through disparate school characteristics; little evidence …

The role of inherited wealth in modern economies has increasingly come under scrutiny. This study presents one of the … share of total wealth in a given economy. Thus, aging is not likely to explain a recent surge in this share in some advanced …

variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social … Gallup World Poll, the paper presents a range of estimates of the wealth-equivalent values of social trust. Such values are … usually not included in national or global accounts of income and wealth. In the light of the estimated importance of social …