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Consumption inequality across heterogeneous families

Alexandros Theloudis

The impact of top incomes biases on the measurement of inequality in the United States

Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme

Convergence vs. the middle income trap: The case of global soccer

Melanie Krause and Stefan Szymanski

The case for negative income tax with flat tax in Europe. An empirical optimal taxation exercise

Nizamul Islam and Ugo Colombino

The roots of inequality: Estimating inequality of opportunity from regression trees

Paolo Brunori, Paul Hufe and Daniel Gerszon Mahler

Data gaps, data incomparability, and data imputation: A review of poverty measurement methods for data-scarce environments

Hai-Anh Dang, Dean Jolliffe and Calogero Carletto

Assessing the performance of targeting mechanisms

B. Essama-Nssah Nssah

The quest for pro-poor and inclusive growth: The role of governance

Djeneba Doumbia

Unfairness at work: Well-being and quits

Conchita D’Ambrosio, Andrew Clark and Marta Barazzetta

Risk preferences and the decision to flee conflict

Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

The effect of relative concern on life satisfaction: Relative deprivation and loss aversion

Martín Leites and Xavi Ramos

On the volume of redistribution: Across income levels and across groups

Ravi Kanbur

Top incomes and inequality measurement: A comparative analysis of correction methods using the EU-SILC data

Vladimir Hlasny and Paolo Verme

Globalization, income tax structure and the redistribution–progressivity tradeoff

Joel Hellier

How valid are synthetic panel estimates of poverty dynamics?

Nicolas Hérault and Stephen Jenkins

Employer power, labor saving technical change, and inequality

Nancy Chau and Ravi Kanbur

Math, girls and socialism

Quentin Lippmann and Claudia Senik

Microsimulation analysis of optimal income tax reforms. An application to New Zealand

John Creedy, Norman Gemmell, Nicolas Hérault and Penny Mok

Top incomes and income dynamics from a gender perspective: Evidence from Finland 1995-2012

Terhi Ravaska

Top incomes and subjective well-being

Michał Brzeziński

A simple subgroup decomposable measure of downward (and upward) income mobility

Elena Barcena-Martin and Olga Cantó

A 1-1-1 relationship for World Bank Income Data and the Gini

Franz Josef Radermacher and Estelle Herlyn

Fair and unfair educational inequality in a developing country: The role of pupil’s effort

M Asadullah, Alain Trannoy, Sandy Tubeuf and Gaston Yalonetzky

The rich underreport their income: Assessing bias in inequality estimates and correction methods using linked survey and tax data

Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig and Andrea Vigorito

Growth, mobility and social welfare

Dirk Van de gaer and Flaviana Palmisano

So close yet so unequal: Neighborhood inequality in American cities

Francesco Andreoli and Eugenio Peluso

Growth, inequality and poverty: A robust relationship?

Gustavo Marrero and Luis Servén

Sources of Inequality in Italy

Roberto Iacono and Marco Ranaldi

Inequality of opportunity in education: Accounting for the contributions of Sibs, schools and sorting across East Africa

Paul Anand, Jere Behrman, Hai-Anh Dang and Sam Jones

Cooperative banks and income inequality: Evidence from Italian provinces

Pierluigi Murro and Valentina Peruzzi

Further evidence of the relationship between social transfers and income inequality in OECD countries

Giorgio d'Agostino, Luca Pieroni and Margherita Scarlato

Inequality and welfare dynamics in the Russian Federation during 1994-2015

Hai-Anh Dang, Michael Lokshin, Kseniya Abanokova and Maurizio Bussolo

Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity

Maurizio Bussolo, Daniele Checchi and Vito Peragine

The measurement of resilience

Geir Asheim, Walter Bossert, Conchita D’Ambrosio and Claus Vogele

Selection and educational attainment: Why some children are left behind? Evidence from a middle-income country

Luciana Méndez-Errico and Xavi Ramos

Population, light, and the size distribution of cities

Christian Düben and Melanie Krause

Why are relatively poor people not more supportive of redistribution? Evidence from a survey experiment across 10 countries

Christopher Hoy and Franziska Mager

The inequality of extreme incomes

Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme

Measuring the statistical capacity of nations

Grant J. Cameron, Hai-Anh Dang, Mustafa Dinc, James Foster and Michael Lokshin

Robust cross-country analysis of inequality of opportunity

Francesco Andreoli and Alessio Fusco

The curvature properties of social welfare functions

Piera Mazzoleni, Elisa Pagani and Federico Perali

A false divide? Correcting beliefs about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right and left-wing voters

Christopher Hoy and Russell Toth

Tracking the Sustainable Development Goals: Emerging measurement challenges and further reflections

Hai-Anh Dang and Umar Serajuddin

The distribution of well-being among Europeans

Andrea Brandolini and Alfonso Rosolia

Redistributive impacts of fiscal policies in Mexico: Corrections for top income measurement problems

Vladimir Hlasny

The evolution of tax implicit value judgements, redistribution and income inequality in the UK: 1968 to 2015

Justin van de Ven and Nicolas Hérault

Household precariousness and youth living arrangements in Spain: evidence for a complete business cycle

Olga Cantó, Inmaculada Cebrián and Gloria Moreno

The dimension, nature and distribution of economic insecurity in European countries: A multidimensional approach

Olga Cantó, Carmelo García-Pérez and Marina Romaguera-de-la-Cruz

Inequality and growth: The cholesterol hypothesis

Gustavo Marrero and Juan Rodríguez

Robust dissimilarity comparisons with categorical outcomes

Francesco Andreoli and Claudio Zoli