Income inequality is a critical issue in both political and public debate. Educational attainment is a key causal … factor of continuing inequality, since it influences human capital accumulation and, as a consequence, the unequal … distribution of earnings. Educational inequality displays a racial dimension that is particularly persistent and difficult to …

documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed … thematically, providing empirical evidence and summarizing the key recent studies on colonial institutions, slavery, land reform …

-discrimination measures in education. An analysis of trends in inequalities in human development is used to identify three countries that have … education has been taken up politically. …

This chapter examines socioeconomic inequality in Latin America through the lens of race and ethnicity. We primarily … measures of race and ethnicity, we also draw on two additional measures from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP …, income, and occupational disadvantages, even after controlling for their social origins. However, inequality and hierarchical …

slave states. -- slavery ; development ; inequality ; institutions ; education …, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three …

, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three … alternative channels of transmission between slavery and inequality: a land inequality theory, a racial discrimination theory and …

implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an …A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic … empirical reasons for treating horizontal inequality as a dependent variable and challenging assumptions of fixity. We first …

development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern … in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite considerable attention to horizontal inequality in both research …Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international …

summarize recent horizontal inequality trends across and within countries and to better understand these changes over time …. Importantly, significant differences exist for different inequality dimensions, i.e. economic, social, political. In terms of data …, few cross-country horizontal inequality datasets are available for research. In general, there is a trade-off between the …

In the us, test score gaps by socioeconomic status and race increase with city size. This paper examines to what extent … city-size gradient in test score inequality. Assortativeness is strongest in the high-income neighborhoods of large cities. …