This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the effect of economic and political inequality on … existence of an inverse relationship between inequality and institutions, but more analysis is needed. Future empirical research … effect of inequality could also take place indirectly, through the influence of inequality on democratization …

This Paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We exhibit a …

This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and …

the rule of law and thereby the welfare of people, and the indomitable tendency of rising and unsustainable inequality in …

The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … occupation. Secondly, we compare the results of our approach to estimate Inequality of Opportunity (which includes a measure of … background. Finally, we apply it to estimate Inequality of Opportunity for the full length of the EU-SILC database, which covers …

This paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has shaped the impact of the COVID …-level inequality at the start of the pandemic. The results show that more stringent measures to contain the pandemic were instrumental … in driving the incidence of protests, but only in counties with high levels of inequality before the start of the …

proved to be enough to shed light on the length and timing before high inequality implies regime change. Thus, this work may …

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, attention concerning inequality as a risk factor has risen. Nevertheless … studies, focusing on the implications of inequality as a collective risk, remain seldom. Therefore the following paper will … discuss why inequality is indeed a collective risk, leading to a social dilemma as known from game theory. The first section …

In the first empirical study on how financial reforms have been instrumental in mitigating inequality through financial …: (1) while formal financial development decreases inequality, financial sector formalization increases it; (2) whereas … semi-formal financial development increases inequality, the effect of financial semi-formalization is unclear; (3) both …