Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence …

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the …

This paper investigates the determinants of inequality in human capital with an emphasis on the role of the credit … enhanced student loan limits and evaluate their effects on educational attainment and inequality. We compare the performance of … of substantial life cycle credit constraints that affect human capital accumulation and inequality. The constrained fall …

workers contributes little to rising wage inequality. When the model is extended to account for the enlarged cohorts of the … the wage history of the last 15 years also explain the last 35 years of wage inequality as documented by Katz and Murphy …

Understanding inequality and devising policies to alleviate it was a central focus of Jan Tinbergen's lifetime research … inequality in his time and now, focusing on his studies on the pricing of skills and the evolution of skill prices. In his most …

A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. It is silent on whether the … increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in the components of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether … in the variance of returns to schooling is due to increased uncertainty. Using conventional measures of income inequality …

education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …

Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high …