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 …

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 …

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 … inequality of opportunity fit within a general framework which involves, as a first step, a calculation of the extent to which …

Public Policy - provides a critical review of the economic literature on equality and inequality of opportunity. A simple … principle are presented, and the tensions between them are discussed. Different approaches to the measurement of inequality of …

the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative …

In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, a number of cross …-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in purpose, coverage, data sources, inclusion and … exclusion criteria, and quality of documentation. A special issue of the Journal of Economic Inequality, which this paper …