What was the impact of urban political structure on economic inequality in preindustrial times? I document that more … closed political institutions were associated with higher economic inequality in a panel of early modern German cities. To … inequality. To mitigate concerns about reverse causality, I exploit the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) as a plausibly exogenous …

This paper examines the nature and evolution of horizontal and vertical human-capital inequality in South Africa since … inequality has been falling in South Africa although with significant variation across the country. Finally we examine the … relationship between changing inequality over time and electoral outcomes. We find that vertical inequality amongst youth is very …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

inequality reduces income growth, but only in democracies. We find that their result is highly sensitive to the use of data … sources on both democracy and inequality. When we substitute more commonly-used and higher-quality data sources for democracy … and inequality, their key result disappears. …

present new evidence on wages and income inequality in the Chilean agricultural sector between 1935 and 1971. The paper also …

and inequality in initial endowments. We find, consistent with theoretical predictions, that democracy breakdown is more … likely the lower the productivity, and increases with the degree of inequality. …

This paper explores the extent to which episodes of democratization can be explained by variation in income inequality … Robinson (2001), our empirical examination considers the possibility that the effect of income inequality on democratization …, we demonstrate that variation in income inequality can explain democratization following recessions, but that there is no …