Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

We study the relationship between per-capita income and income inequality with a heterogeneous panel co …-51 years and consider measures for both pre-tax and post-tax income inequality; second, we take into account country …-tax income inequality,but no such relationship for post-tax income inequality. Moreover, we find estimates on the country level …

believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post … performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was …

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question … spline methods. The association between top 1% share and development is found to experience a reversal at later stages of …

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

development. In the past half-century, these countries raised agricultural productivity faster than population growth and … displayed sufficient state capability to direct change towards a respectable level of industrial development. In this period …: agriculture, industry, foreign trade and investment, and social development. By using a more socially grounded analytical approach …

, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition …In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the … outcome of four interleaved stories. The first story is a standard development story characterized by structural change …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children’s economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …

quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage inequality, human capital accumulation, child labor … path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …