data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality largely due to changes in …—widened inequality. The gender gap continued to rise, as did the gap between white collar and blue collar workers, and between …

Education is widely perceived to be a tonic for the rising inequality that often accompanies development. But most … higher inequality—not the lower Gini coefficients many would expect. Since most developing countries tilt their spending …’s Millennium Campaign, could end up raising inequality in much of the developing world. …

inequality according to the contribution of its subcomponents. We illustrate our methodology for Mexico’s last three census … rounds. Municipal-based human development has increased over time and inequality between municipalities has decreased. The … wealth component has increasingly accounted for most of the existing inequality in human development during the last 20years. …

We analyze the relationship between wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative …. Using the ANOGI decomposition technique, we estimate that between-caste inequality accounted for about 13% of overall wealth … inequality in 2002–03. The stratification parameters indicate that the forward caste Hindus overlap little with the other caste …

use of native slavery. The slavery variables are highly correlated with current levels of inequality. The correlation … between our slavery use variables and inequality is stronger than that observed between inequality and development, geographic … past may be an important determinant of the levels of inequality observed today across the globe. …