Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …

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 …