intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable …

land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident. …

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

increasing function of aggregate wealth, but a decreasing function of wealth inequality, though even substantial redistributions …

How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one …, with biases going in both directions. Conceptual issues further cloud the picture. The claim that global inequality has … inequality is found to be rising if one or more of the following conditions holds: (i) one attaches a high ethical weight to the …

How unequal is the world today? Is global income inequality falling, as many economists claim, or is it rising, as one …, with biases going in both directions. Conceptual issues further cloud the picture. The claim that global inequality has … inequality is found to be rising if one or more of the following conditions holds: (i) one attaches a high ethical weight to the …

land and housing bring little gain to mean consumption and play little role in explaining inequality. Inheritance of non … more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident …. -- inheritance ; land ; mobility ; inequality ; gender …

lack of data for nonrespondents has hindered efforts to correct for the bias in measures of poverty and inequality … inequality, but has only a small impact on poverty incidence up to commonly used poverty lines in the United States. This paper … methods of measuring poverty and inequality from survey data …