distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …

The increasing wage inequality in many countries is usually seen as brought about by economic forces that drive for …

distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence …-health’s contribution to income inequality is difficult to gauge. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life could be an important … mechanism through which health may generate and possibly sustain economic inequality. If material advantage can be exercised …

-an inverse-U shape relationship between income inequality and per capita GDP-that is relatively stable from the 1960s into the … 2000s. The direct effect of international openness on income inequality is also found to be positive. On the other hand, a … cross-country-growth equation shows a negative effect of income inequality on economic growth, holding fixed a familiar set …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …