More than 90% of people suffering from Malaria live in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We construct, for the first time, a Malaria Policy Index (MaPI) for 44 SSA countries to quantify and compare each country’s antimalarial policy actions between 1990 and 2017. The MaPI compiles information on...

Using Integrated Public Use Microdata Series-United States micro-census data from 1960 to 2010, this paper examines whether racial and gender income disparities beget inequality by differentially impacting the growth prospects of the poor, the middle class, and the rich. Racial and gender...

This paper estimates the contribution of intergenerational transfers (inheritances and gifts) and socioeconomic background to wealth inequality in four OECD countries: France, Spain, Great Britain and the United States. We compare the observed wealth distribution with a non-parametric...

The number of diesel cars in Europe has grown significantly over the last three decades, a process usually known as dieselization, and they now account for nearly 40% of the cars on the road. We build on a dynamic general equilibrium model that makes a distinction between diesel motor and...