Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Krieger, Tim - 2018 - This version: January 2018
We study the short and long run responses of income inequality to positive per capita oil and gas rent shocks in Iran … and statistically significant response of income inequality to oil rent booms within 4 years of the shock. In addition … per capita leads to an approximately 1.4-percent increase in income inequality. The results are robust to controlling for …