of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among … panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to … have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second …

regressions, amongst other strategies, we find robust evidence of a causal effect of per-capita income on the prevalence of … of income on democracy implied by ‘modernisation theory’. These findings imply that corruption may disappear ‘naturally …

Contrary to previous findings, we find a systematic and economically sizeable relationship between income levels and …

influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based … countries. We estimate simultaneously an income and a religion equation to correct for the endogeneity of religiosity. We find … that estimation outcomes are different between low and high-income countries. Whereas church membership is found to have a …