The growth of total factor productivity (TFP) in advanced economies has slowed significantly after the 1970s. The global financial crisis (GFC) has resulted in the second productivity growth slowdown. This paper, on the basis of a broad literature review, identifies the structural forces and...

The literature on wealth inequality is expanding very fast. Wealth is usually more concentrated than income. However, traditional measures of wealth inequality are based only on private wealth, and thus exclude public pension entitlements. In this chapter, the literature on the impact of public...

This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...

The aging of society increases the importance of public pension systems. This study evaluates the influence of public pension entitlements on wealth inequality. Novel data source - the Eurosystem Household Finance and Consumption Survey – is used to compare the impact of the public pension...

Personal height often serves as a proxy for economic progress. In this paper, we investigate the evolution of average height and height dispersion in Poland based on full administrative data on personal height (n=36,393,246). In the cohorts born between 1920 and 1996 average height of men...

In this paper, I estimate income inequality in Warsaw in the early XIX century. The data source is the 1833 tax census. I compare the income of Jews and Christians and investigate the spatial dimension of income inequality in the city. In 1833, income inequality in Warsaw was very high by modern...

Economic theory does not give clear predictions on the impact of social security on private wealth. The theoretical ambiguity and practical importance generated a large stream of empirical research. In this paper, we review the available evidence on displacement effects of social security. Our...

In this paper, we analyse intergenerational educational mobility in Poland since 1920. In that period, Poland regained independence, experienced a massive loss of life in World War Two, changed borders, transited to state socialism after 1945, and finally in 1989 transited to democracy and free...