Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality …

The last four decades have been marked by growing inequality. The inequality of income and wealth is one of the most … important macroeconomic issues of our time. Inequality contributed to Global Savings Glut and Global Financial Crisis through … factors, monetary policy, high leverage and the development of new money substitutes are critical in explaining the inequality …

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution. For this, we conduct a large … overestimate their position reduce their aversion to inequality after learning their position, while those who underestimate their …

This paper investigates the long-run nexus between wealth inequality and aggregate output using a DSGE model in which … wealth inequality endogenously affects individual entrepreneurship incentives, thereby influencing aggregate output. Our … inequality dynamics in the UK. Directly removing entrepreneurial barriers or indirectly providing government grant support to the …

distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence …-health’s contribution to income inequality is difficult to gauge. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life could be an important … mechanism through which health may generate and possibly sustain economic inequality. If material advantage can be exercised …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …

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 …