; population focus ; income focus ; impossibility result …

Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the … world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its … emergence of a global "middle class". We show how regional distributions of income and consumption have evolved very differently …

if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany …. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in at least three dimensions decisive for their later achievements … public childcare strongly reduces resource disparities among children. …

We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income … not only on work time (effort) but also on low relative income. It is rigorously shown that the set of preference profiles … ; low relative income ; relative deprivation ; exacerbated inequality …

We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income … not only on work time (effort) but also on low relative income. It is rigorously shown that the set of preference profiles … ; Low relative income ; Relative deprivation ; Exacerbated inequality …

widely used operational definition - the growth rate in the average income of the poorest 40 percent of a country …

income fluctuations than higher-income families and, as a result, taxation of annual income disproportionately burdens low-income …This Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating that low-income families experience far greater … families. The author proposes two simple income averaging devices to redress this effect: averaging the Earned Income Tax …

(if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty …

This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature …