s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising … the asymmetries in the association, tests for robustness to alternative income definitions, and discusses the potential …

opportunity and reviews recent empirical work on the relation between formal financial systems and poverty, income inequality, and …

financial development is pro-poor: Does financial development disproportionately raise the income of the poor? Using a broad … cross-country sample, the authors find that the answer is yes: Financial intermediary development reduces income inequality … by disproportionately boosting the income of the poor and therefore reduces poverty. This result is robust to controlling …

suboptimal policies and weak institutions, of special interest and elite capture, can be understood as the selection of a point … on the political demand curve by oligopolistic political competition. Further, it shows how elite capture is only one of …

This paper measures the economic impact of social pressure to share income with kin and neighbors in rural Kenyan … to test whether subjects reduce their income in order to keep it hidden. The analysis finds that women adopt an … women behave as though they expect to be pressured to share four percent of their observable income with others, and …

With only 32 percent of working-age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper-middle-income country with one of …