documenting the broad patterns of national and sub-national differences in income and inequality, building on the seminal … contributions of Engerman and Sokoloff (2000; 2002, 2005) and aiming to capture different dimensions of inequality. We then proceed … thematically, providing empirical evidence and summarizing the key recent studies on colonial institutions, slavery, land reform …

The relative incomes and education-levels of Black and white populations in the United States and Brazil are considered …, the effects of demography, education, and regional migration on the Black-white income gap are disentangled using census … inequality over time, meaning that discrimination or other unobserved factors have become more-substantial determinants of …

the vast majority of countries. Third, in many countries with low levels of education for both men and women in 1960 … better. Fourth, gender gaps rarely persist in countries where boys attain high levels of education. Most countries with large … other measures of development such as life expectancy and GDP per capita. Fifth, in the youngest cohorts, women have more …

Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and … top of the education and income distribution (upward mobility) has increased. On the other hand, for children whose …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in … productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …

We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form … of higher firm productivity dispersion, plays a less important role in explaining rising inequality, except for the …

We use a combination of surveys of instructors and data from course syllabi to examine how the subject of development …. We find there is considerable heterogeneity in what is considered development economics: there is a narrow core of topics … (growth theory, poverty and inequality, human capital, and institutions) taught in at least half the classes and large …

. Issues having anything to do with race relations, including discrimination in labor markets, became seen as outside of the …

In this article we evaluate the effectiveness of ethnomathematics education among indigenous children: the JADENKÄ …