The inequality possibility frontier: the extensions and new applications

Branko Milanovic

No 2013:1, Comparative Institutional Analysis Working Paper Series from Lund University, Comparative Institutional Analysis, School of Economics and Management

Abstract: The paper extends the Inequality Possibility Frontier (IPF) approach introduced by Milanovic, Lindert and Williamson (2011) in two methodological directions. It allows the social minimum to increase with the average income of a society, and it derives all the IPF statistics for two other inequality measures than the Gini. Finally, it applies the framework to contemporary data showing that the inequality extraction ratio can be used in the empirical analysis of post-1960 civil conflict around the world. The duration of conflict and the casualty rate are positively associated with the inequality extraction ratio, that is, with the extent to which elite pushes the actual inequality closer to its maximum level. Inequality, albeit slightly reformulated, is thus shown to play a role in explaining civil conflict.

Keywords: inequality; inequality possibility frontier; civil war (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 N30 O10 Q30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2013-05-01
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