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On the measurement of relative, absolute and intermediate pro-middle class growth

Osnat Peled and Jacques Silber

Intergenerational earnings elasticity of actual father-son pairs in Italy accounting for lifecycle and attenuation bias

Francesco Bloise and Michele Raitano

On the measurement of population weighted relative indices of mobility and convergence, with an illustration based on Chinese data

Elena Barcena-Martin, Jacques Silber and Yuan Zhang

The distribution of wealth in the U.S. and Spain: the role of socio-economic factors

Pedro Salas-Rojo and Juan Rodríguez

To impute or not to impute, and how? A review of alternative poverty estimation methods in the context of unavailable consumption data

Hai-Anh Dang

Preferences for redistribution and exposure to tax-benefit schemes in Europe

Francesco Andreoli and Javier Olivera

Measuring the distributional impact of taxation and public spending: The practice of fiscal incidence analysis

Nora Lustig

Economic Insecurity and the Rise of the Right

Walter Bossert, Andrew Clark, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur

Upper and lower bound estimates of inequality of opportunity: A cross-national comparison for Europe

Rafael Carranza

In Praise of Snapshots

Ravi Kanbur

The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality: A counterfactual analysis for OECD countries

Luis Ayala, Javier Martín-Román and Juan Vicente-Perdiz

The Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity in Germany: A Machine Learning Approach

Paolo Brunori and Guido Neidhöfer

Ranking populations in terms of Inequality of health opportunity: A flexible latent type approach

Paolo Brunori, Caterina Guidi and Alain Trannoy

Opportunity advantage: a new approach to comparing income distributions

Carmen Herrero and Antonio Villar

How does Information about Inequality Shape Voting Intentions and Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment in Indonesia

Christopher Hoy, Russell Toth and Nurina Merdikawati

Tony Atkinson’s new book, Measuring Poverty Around the World. Some further reflections

Andrea Brandolini and John Micklewright

Monetary policy and the top one percent: Evidence from a century of modern economic history

Mehdi El Herradi and Aurélien Leroy

The ``missing rich'' in household surveys: causes and correction approaches

Nora Lustig

Which Model for Poverty Predictions?

Paolo Verme

Intergenerational mobility in lifetime income

Moshe Justman and Hadas Stiassnie

Income Distribution and the Fear of Crime: Evidence from Germany

Michelle Acampora, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Markus Grabka

Income-related health inequality in urban China (1991-2015): The role of homeownership and housing conditions

Peng Nie, Andrew Clarck, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Lanlin Ding

Skin tone differences in social mobility in mexico: are we forgetting regional variance?

Luis Monroy-Gómez-Franco and Roberto Velez-Grajales

Estimating intergenerational income mobility on sub-optimal data: a machine learning approach

Francesco Bloise, Paolo Brunori and Patrizio Piraino

Life Satisfaction, Subjective Wealth, and Adaptation to Vulnerability in the Russian Federation during 2002-2017

Hai-Anh Dang, Kseniya Abanokova and Michael Lokshin

Measuring multidimensional inequality of opportunity

Martyna Kobus, Marek Kapera and Vito Peragine

Long-Term Evolution of Inequality of Opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

American Exceptionalism? Differences in the Elasticity of Preferences for Redistribution between the United States and Western Europe

Christopher Hoy and Franziska Mager

Prioritarian evaluation of well-being with an ordinal variable

Suman Seth and Gaston Yalonetzky

A Natural Experiment on Job Insecurity and Fertility in France

Andrew Clark and Anthony Lepinteur

The earnings effects of occupational segregation in Europe: The role of gender and migration status

Amaia Palencia-Esteban and Coral del Rio Otero

Inequality of Outcomes, Inequality of Opportunity, and Economic Growth

Rafael Carranza

Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality

Vladimir Hlasny, Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

Estimating Poverty among Refugee Populations: A Cross-Survey Imputation Exercise for Chad

Theresa Beltramo, Hai-Anh Dang, Ibrahima Sarr and Paolo Verme

Wealth inequality, intergenerational transfers and socioeconomic background

Juan Palomino, Gustavo Marrero, Brian Nolan and Juan Rodríguez

New Perspectives on the Gini and Bonferroni Indices of Inequality

Satya Chakravarty and Palash Sarkar

The Important Role of Equivalence Scales: Household Size, Composition, and Poverty Dynamics in the Russian Federation

Kseniya Abanokova, Hai-Anh Dang and Michael Lokshin

Welfare Dynamics in India over a Quarter Century: Poverty, Vulnerability, and Mobility during 1987-2012

Hai-Anh Dang and Peter Lanjouw

Inequality and Panel Income Changes: Conditions for Possibilities and Impossibilities

Robert Duval-Hernandez, Gary Fields and George Jakubson

Lives and Livelihoods: Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Benoît Decerf, Francisco Ferreira, Daniel Mahler and Olivier Sterck

Spatial divisions of poverty and wealth: How much does segregation matter for educational achievement?

Rafael Carranza, Gabriel Otero and Dante Contreras

What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1\%?

Richard Burkhauser, Nicolas Hérault, Stephen Jenkins and Roger Wilkins

Are there inequality spillovers? Evidence through a modified inequality measure and European dynamics of inequality

Deniz Sevinc, Edgar Mata Flores and Simon Collinson

Income Poverty has been Halved in the Developing World, even when Accounting for Relative Poverty

Benoît Decerf and Mery Ferrando

Parametric Representation of the Top of Income Distributions: Options, Historical Evidence and Model Selection

Vladimir Hlasny

Combining absolute and relative poverty: Income poverty measurement with two poverty lines

Benoît Decerf

Top Expenditure Distribution in Arab Countries and the Inequality Puzzle

Vladimir Hlasny

Distance-based social index numbers: a unifying approach

Walter Bossert, Conchita D'Ambrosio and Shlomo Weber

Why wealth inequality differs between post-socialist countries?

Michał Brzeziński and Katarzyna Sałach-Dróżdż

Changing the Housing Share of Poverty Thresholds for the Supplemental Poverty Measure: Does Consumer Unit Size Matter?

Trudi Renwick and Thesia Garner