Market forces beyond individual control are a central driver of income inequality, a phenomenon we refer to as market … address this question, we conduct experiments in the US, France, and China in which inequality between workers emerges due to … random matching with buyers who require specific skills, creating inequality driven by market luck. Our findings from the US …

Spanish regions using EUROMOD. Our results show that the IMV reduces inequality and poverty - general and extreme - for all … level, although this power has not been as effective as it was expected in reducing inequality. This work also simulates the … effects on inequality and poverty that the elimination of current RMI and the introduction of the new IMV would generate …

Does parental wealth inequality impact next generation labor income inequality? And does a tax on parental wealth …

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure … voluntarily supplied public goods; specifically, we show that not only an income inequality-raising redistribution policy but also … allowed, an inequality-raising redistribution policy is no longer effective and leaves social welfare unchanged. …

inequality through a real-world policy, rather than experimental treatments, may trigger only marginal changes in support for …

We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest … inequality measure increases by 6.5% the unconditional probability of observing social unrest in a village in a given month. …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

societies occupy top positions in inequality rankings, redistribution levels tend to be lower. We combine survey and … inequality, focusing on two channels, fairness views and communication. First, we confirm the finding that inequality resulting … from differences in merit is more accepted than inequality due to luck or factors outside of individual control. We also …

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … overestimate their position reduce their aversion to inequality after learning their position, while those who underestimate their …