In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

A growing body of literature studies the effect of providing information about inequality to respondents of surveys on … broader project on perceptions of inequality and preferences for redistribution ( Does Inequality Matter? How People Perceive … about their position in the income distribution. The results show that providing information on inequality has a sizeable …

In this paper, we consider whether or not inequality forces society to expend more resources on supervision which … imposes an extra cost to doing business. Some argue that since inequality deteriorates social capital, there is a greater need … the link between inequality and guard labor. …

inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …