strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects …

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …

on economic activity (night lights and GDP), together with the lack of significant in uence on patterns of inequality …

African development; (ii) income distribution, inequality, and poverty; and (iii) economic structure, interdependence, and …

We study the relationship between housing inequality and crime in South Africa. We create a novel panel dataset … combining information on crimes at the police station level with census data. We find that housing inequality explains a …. An increase of one standard deviation in housing inequality explains between 9 and 13 percent of crime increases …

In this paper we reassess the relationship between inequality and human development, focusing on the differential … distributive data consistent across countries and over time (World Income Inequality Database companion datasets). We show how the … concentration of income at the bottom and top, rather than overall inequality, is negatively associated with human development. This …

This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …

-income economies. In particular, since the beginning of the growth slowdown of the economy of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in …