-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and empirical evidence which both suggest that these ‘top lights’ follow …

inequality nexus. Economic growth/development, urbanization, and energy/electricity consumption are all highly correlated. While … employment and improved quality-of-life opportunities that help to encourage/cause rural-urban migration; in other words …, electricity/energy consumption may cause urbanization and not the other way around. Urban density is associated with energy …

implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …

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 …

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 …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …