of the group in the conflict and its members’ utilities vary with the degree of within-group inequality. We show that … there is a natural relationship between the group’s probability of victory and the Atkinson index of inequality. If members …

Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust … empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing … data set with country- and group-level measures of inequality within and across ethnic groups. We then show that consistent …

than one group can expend positive effort in equilibrium. Second, we show that inequality of valuations of victory within …

of the group in the conflict and its members’ utilities vary with the degree of within-group inequality. We show that … there is a natural relationship between the group’s probability of victory and the Atkinson index of inequality. If members …

public good is pure, any given, positive level of income inequality can be shown to be socially excessive by suitably … redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo. …

social preferences in different economic systems. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents responding to …

absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …

We show that inequality triggers social unrest in rural India. We develop a theoretical framework where social unrest … inequality measure increases by 6.5% the unconditional probability of observing social unrest in a village in a given month. …

by post-tax inequality), in OLS and IV regressions. Finally, we provide arguments to dismiss possible reverse causation …