equal distribution of education contributes significantly to reducing income inequality. Educational expansion is a major … factor in reducing educational inequality and thus income inequality. Public policies that improve social benefits and price … stability contribute to reducing income inequality, while public spending on education helps to reduce educational inequality …

In this paper we look at lifetime inequality to address two main questions: How well does a modern tax system, based on … annual information, target lifetime inequality? What aspects of the tranfser system are most progressive from a lifetime … perspective? To answer to these questions it is crucial to relate lifetime and annual inequality and determine the main building …

Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation …

men who grew up in regions or periods with high levels of income inequality experienced less intergenerational mobility as …

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 …

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

We analyze inequality and mobility across generations in a dynastic economy. Nurture, in terms of bequests and the … nature affect mobility and the transmission of income inequality across generations, thus complementing the vast empirical …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …, taxes and transfers mitigate around 60% of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is attributable to employment and health …