 Do financial crises increase income inequality?Cristina Bodea, Christian Houle and Hyunwoo Kim World Development, 2021, vol. 147, issue C Abstract: This paper investigates the impact of economic crises on income inequality. Important evidence has emerged that in the aftermath of crises politics becomes polarized and economists have linked this to greater differences in income due to crises. However, the evidence on whether crises are linked to divergent incomes is weak and plagued by i) the possibility of a reverse effect going from great disparity in incomes to major economic crises; ii) the persistent nature of income inequality; and iii) important measurement error in both the dependent and independent variables. We use the longest time stretch of available data on crises and types of crises (Reinhart and Rogoff, 2011) and income inequality (Solt, 2009), as well as decade averaged data, general method of moments and error-correction models to more credibly estimate the complex relationship between crises and inequality. We find strong evidence that currency, banking, inflation and debt crises increase inequality, particularly in the long run. Keywords: Financial crises; Economic inequality; Unemployment; Poverty; Policy responses (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:wdevel:v:147:y:2021:i:c:s0305750x21002503 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105635 Access Statistics for this article World Development is currently edited by O. T. Coomes More articles in World Development from Elsevier |
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