Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining …

comparative development. We also show that ethnic inequality goes in tandem with lower levels development also within countries … countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern …

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …

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 …

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

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

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 …