and its connection with inequality. To this purpose Brazil's income distribution is explored from two dimensions …: inequality and polarisation. A new middle class index (MCI), based on polarisation methods, is used to assess the evolution of … prevented the achievement of high inequality values and the emergence of a middle class. Then in the early twentieth century …

In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini … article has evolved to become a further attempt at contributing to the literature on inequality and the statistics to measure … it. As in my 2011 paper, in this one I also conclude that if we want to understand why inequality is so unequal across …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

inequality over time, meaning that discrimination or other unobserved factors have become more-substantial determinants of …

institutions, slavery, farm inequality, and political inequality on long-term development in São Paulo. The principal findings are … and IV estimates, no negative effect can be found for 1905 inequality on long-term development; (5) political inequality …Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early …

to decompose total income inequality into three components: interregional, intraregional and interpersonal within regions …, and to assess the importance of each of them in the making up of total income inequality in Brazil. An income inequality … index will be constructed that decomposes total inequality into the three components mentioned in the title. Data for …