A member of a collective-action household may or may not share knowledge with others in that household. Shared income … gains from shared knowledge may well be offset by a shift in the balance of power within the family. Using household survey …, but would also be consistent with an intra-household externality of literacy. …

aggregates country-level attainments in life expectancy, schooling and income. The main change was to relax the past assumption …

The Luxembourg Income Study (now known as LIS) provides public access for research purposes to harmonized unit …

labor-surplus economy can be expected to have some forgone income when they take up such a scheme. A survey-based method is … that for the same budget, workfare has less impact on poverty than either a basic-income scheme (providing the same …

In a rare example of an explicit national goal for income distribution besides reducing poverty, China's leadership has … recently committed to expanding the middle-income share--moving to a less polarized "olive-shaped" distribution. Recognizing … the potential trade-offs, the paper asks whether China's experience indicates that income-polarization was a by-product of …