general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …

distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …

like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …

The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extendedby the UN has been both widely used and … strongly criticized. The criticisms raisequestions about conclusions drawn from secondary inequality datasets in general … new dataset of consistent inequality series,allowing us to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new …

social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality …-adjusted social welfare functions in a general equilibrium structure mapping from tariff protection to household inequality. This … yields predictions regarding the linkages between trade protection, country characteristics and inequality in Heckscher …