In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …

When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is … that the U-shaped inequality trend over the past century holds up, but with important qualifications. Using measures that …-term income inequality trends. …

Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …

What accounts for the growth of US top income inequality? This paper proposes a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis …

To what extent can increasing inequality be explained by globalization? And if there is a connection, what if anything … predicting changes in inequality and how it has needed to be extended and expanded when, contrary to some received wisdom …, greater global integration is associated with increasing inequality in developed and developing countries. From there, the …

constant correction to survey-derived inequality estimates. Underreporting of income by the bottom 50 percent of the world … global poverty and inequality have declined dramatically between 1980 and 2019. Finally, we find that within …-country inequality is falling on average and has been largely constant since the 1990s. …

Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …