suggestive but not robust: while overall income inequality is generally negatively associated with growth in the household survey …Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … economic progress. We construct two new metadata sets, consisting of 118 household surveys and 134 Demographic and Health …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper … then looks at household survey data to assess recent progress in this indicator globally. The analysis finds that during …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

inequality decomposition approach that requires going beyond means in assessing between-group differences. We apply this approach …Scholars have sought to quantify the extent of inequality which is inherited from past generations in multiple ways …, including a large body of work on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity. This paper makes two contributions …