Search Results - subject_exact:"Social inequality"

Some are hit hard, for others it’s business as usual : the effects of chronic illnesses on employment and income trajectories

Jansen, Andreas - 2026

This study examines the relationship between the onset and progression of a chronic disease and subsequent income and employment trajectories using SHARE-RV, a longitudinal dataset that links survey data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with German Pension...

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Perceived fairness in access to higher education in wartime Ukraine : social inequalities and trust in admission testing

Mishchuk, Halyna; Krol, Vita; Bilan, Yuriy - 2026

The accessibility of higher education during wartime is an essential tool for reducing inequality, retaining talent for post-war recovery, and advancing human development. To increase access to higher education amid a deficit in public finances, Ukraine has introduced mandatory Standardised...

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Time theft : exposing a subtle yet serious driver of socioeconomic inequality

Pierce, Jason R.; Giurge, Laura M.; Aeon, Brad - 2025

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Reducing inequality by correcting misperceptions : experimental evidence on student aid take-up

Riedmiller, Sebastian - 2025

Financial student aid improves educational outcomes and reduces social inequality, yet many eligible students do not take it up. To examine whether correcting misperceptions increases take-up, I conducted an RCT with 6,225 university students across Germany who were not receiving aid. I find...

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Reducing inequality by correcting misperceptions: Experimental evidence on student aid take-up

Riedmiller, Sebastian - 2025

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Social and regional inequalities in the sense of safety in Germany

Bindler, Anna; Walther, Hannah - 2025

The public's perceived sense of safety influences many domains in significant ways: It impacts individual behavior, life quality, consumption behavior, and even political views as well as government action. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the German Federal Government's 2024...

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Stratified social norms

Wietmarschen, Han van - 2024

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Closing the employment gap : estimations of Indigenous employment in Indigenous- and non-Indigenous-owned businesses in Australia

Eva, Christian; Hunter, Boyd H.; Bodle, Kerry; Foley, Dennis - 2024

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Innovative approaches to ensuring cybersecurity and public safety : the socio-economic dimension

Tiutiunyk, Inna; Pozovna, Iryna; Zaskorski, Wojciech - 2024

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Revisiting the policy field through the lens of Mexican scholars

Moreno Jaimes, Carlos - 2024

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Live performers' experiences of precarity and recognition during COVID-19 and beyond

Hancock, Philip; Tyler, Melissa - 2024

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Elite participation as a measure of global development

Bergh, Andreas - 2026

Treating development as the ability to participate in complex, non-subsistence, globally comparable activities, this paper proposes participation in elite activities as an indicator of global development. Using standardized rankings from 1970 to 2025 across domains, including sports, chess,...

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Accents as capital

Fergusson, Leopoldo; Garbiras-Díaz, Natalia; … - 2026

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Why has decreasing schooling inequality not led to decreasing earnings inequality in South Africa?

Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Finn, Arden; … - 2026

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Why has Decreasing Schooling Inequality Not Led to Decreasing Earnings Inequality in South Africa?

Lam, David; Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Finn, Arden; … - 2026

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Inequality in the Cape colony, 1685-1844 : new measures, new evidence

Fourie, Johan - 2026

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La protection sociale au cœur de la transition juste : un levier contre les inégalités

Yasser, Rawane; David, Anda; Nirrengarten, Audrey; … - 2026

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Inclusive urban futures : from inequality to opportunity

2026

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Global estimates of opportunity and mobility : a database

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vitorocco; … - 2026

This paper describes a new public-access online database containing internationally comparable estimates of inequality of opportunity for seventy-two countries, covering two-thirds of the world's population. The estimates were computed directly from the unit-record microdata for 196 household...

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Global estimates of opportunity and mobility : a database

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vitorocco; … - 2026

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Global estimates of opportunity and mobility : a database

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vitorocco; … - 2026

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Inclusive growth in South Africa? : inequality dynamics and the role of trade openness vs tax policies

Bargain, Olivier; Benhura, Miracle; Jara, H. Xavier; … - 2026

Market forces, and notably the role of trade openness, contribute to shaping inequality in South Africa and may limit the inclusiveness of its growth path. Recently, policy reforms may have helped to mitigate these effects. To better understand these developments, we analyse trends in post-tax...

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Inclusive growth in South Africa? : inequality dynamics and the role of trade openness vs tax policies

Bargain, Olivier; Jara, H. Xavier; Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence - 2026

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Inequality and climate change : measuring interlinkages to inform equitable climate policy

Yasser, Rawane; Shifa, Muna; David, Anda; Leibbrandt, … - 2026

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Inequity aversion and the stability of majority rule

Le, Minh Tung; Saporiti, Alejandro - 2026

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Unequal climate policy in an unequal world

Belfiori, Elisa; Carroll, Daniel; Hur, Sewon - 2026

We characterize optimal climate policy in an economy with heterogeneous households and non-homothetic preferences. We focus on constrained efficiency, where the planner is restricted from transferring resources across households. We derive three results. First, the constrained-optimal carbon tax...

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The middle class and vulnerability to income poverty : implications for social protection in the Philippines

Cabalfin, Deanne Lorraine D.; Albert, Jose Ramon; … - 2026

The Philippines aspires to become a predominantly middle-class society by 2040. Significant strides have been achieved in the reduction of extreme poverty. However, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of recent gains and the vulnerability of many households to economic shocks. This study...

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The dawn of inequality

Bertazzini, Mattia C.; Eckhoff, Gina; Heldring, Leander - 2026

Why did enduring socio-economic inequality emerge between the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE, after millennia of substantial egalitarianism? We test the hypothesis of inequality being a by-product of state formation in an archeological panel covering Southern Iraq between 3900 and 1900 BCE. We...

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Human Development Index (HDI) of Indian states : 2022-23

Mukherjee, Sacchidananda; Jadhav, Vivek - 2026

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Housing capital gains across the income distribution

Bäckman, Claes; D'Lima, Walter; Khorunzhina, Natalia - 2026

We show that high-income buyers earn higher capital gains on housing using detailed transaction data from Denmark. Geographic location statistically accounts for nearly all the difference, with little role for aggregate market timing, property type, or other buyer characteristics. This finding...

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Selective sanitation and racial health inequality

Fourie, Johan; Lemon, Kelsey; Pretorius, Jan-Hendrik - 2026

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Redistribution with unequal life expectancy

Jessen, Lasse J.; Köhne, Sebastian - 2026 - Original version: October 2023, this version: Januar 2026

Abstract We study life expectancy inequality in a Mirrleesian life-cycle framework. Life expectancy shapes the efficiency dimension of redistribution via the pension wedge. Moreover, cost- and preference-based channels arising from the income-lifespan gradient reduce the mechanical value of...

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Inherited inequality and the distribution of opportunities in the United States, China, India, and South Africa

Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Salas-Rojo, Pedro - 2026

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Anatomy of US inequality

Galor, Oded; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2026

Is income inequality in the United States primarily driven by disparities between ethnic groups or within them? The evidence reveals a striking pattern: 96% of U.S. income inequality arises from variation within groups sharing common ancestral origins, far overshadowing the comparatively small...

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Anatomy of US Inequality

Galor, Oded; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2025

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Climate justice : the intersection of economics, the environment, and inequality

Leiva, Benjamín; Castellanos, Edwin; Ley, Debora; … - 2026

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Individual-level inequality

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2026

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Individual-level inequality

Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram de; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2026

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Intergenerational education mobility trends in South Africa : patterns by population group

Branson, Nicola; Ressom, Hagos - 2026

South Africa's education system remains shaped by a legacy of colonialism and apartheid, with persistent racial disparities in attainment despite multiple post-1994 reforms. Using wave 5 of the National Income Dynamics Study, this paper examines intergenerational education mobility across...

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Income inequality and campaign contributions : evidence from the 1986 Reagan tax cut

Larcinese, Valentino; Parmigiani, Alberto - 2026

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Macroprudential policy effects on the access to finance, default and inequality : evidence from Romania

Alupoaiei, Alexie; Ichim, Simona; Neagu, Florian; Popa, Radu - 2026

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Public policies and social inequalities in transformation : comparative insights from Europe and Latin America

2026

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Social protection in Vietnam : an updated overview

Dang, Hai-Anh; Do Minh - 2026

While Vietnam has been remarkably successful in poverty reduction, the country is faced with various challenges ranging from uneven pockets of poverty, regional inequality, low labour productivity, and high informality rates, to a fast-ageing society. We offer an updated overview of the social...

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Social protection in Viet Nam : an updated overview

Dang, Hai-Anh; Do Minh - 2026

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Climate change and multidimensional poverty : global, subnational, and household-level evidence

Castells-Quintana, David; Mukherjee, Manisha; Suppa, Nicolai - 2026

Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of this century. This is more so for developing and least-developed countries, which have limited means of adaptation and a high proportion of vulnerable populations. We empirically study the interconnection between climate and...

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Climate shocks, labour market dynamics, and inequality in South Africa : evidence from administrative tax data

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Mogess, Yohannes Kefale; … - 2026

This paper examines the impact of temperature shocks on individual earnings and income inequality in South Africa. We leverage high-resolution satellite temperature data, merged with administrative tax records from the South African National Treasury and UNU-WIDER. Data from 2009 to 2022 shows...

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Early-life adversity and preferences for redistribution : a global perspective

Marchesi, Daniele; Angelini, Viola; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2026

This paper is the first to examine how adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) influence the support for income redistribution in adulthood. Using data from the 2022-2024 wave of the Global Flourishing Study on over 160,000 individuals from 22 countries, we construct measures of ACEs based on...

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Early-life adversity and preferences for redistribution : a global perspective

Marchesi, Daniele; Angelini, Viola; Nikolova, Milena; … - 2026

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Bottom-Coding for the Measurement of Global Poverty and Inequality

Yonzan, Nishant; Jolliffe, Dean; Kraay, Aart; Lakner, … - 2026

Distribution sensitive welfare and poverty measures are designed to respond to low values of individual income or consumption. However, very small positive values can have an extreme influence on many distribution sensitive measures, and some measures are not defined for nonpositive values....

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From early exit to retention : employers and the reconfiguration of active ageing policy

Turek, Konrad; Henkens, Kène - 2026

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An equity-driven adaptation framework for urban flooding in India

Sarkar, Soma - 2026

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End of apartheid, not of inequality : the slow transition in a segregated economy

Manysheva, Kristina; Mestieri, Martí; Schauer, Johanna - 2026

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End of apartheid, not of inequality : the slow transition in a segregated economy

Manysheva, Kristina; Mestieri, Martí; Schauer, Johanna - 2025

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The civil war reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

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The Civil War reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

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Measuring gender disparity in educational attainment worldwide, 1950-2015 : evidence toward achieving sustainable development goals 4 and 5

Akita, Takahiro - 2026

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Breaking the dynastic cycle : inequality, taxation, and redistribution

Jammeh, Ismaila Y.; Giri, Federico; Russo, Alberto - 2026

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From opportunity gaps to redistribution demands : evidence from European regions

Gasparroni, Andrea - 2026

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Ancestral inequality and preferences for redistribution

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2026

Using a combination of individual-level, bioclimatic, ethnographic, and archaeological data, we investigate the ancient origins of cross-country variation in preferences for redistribution. Our hypothesis is that contemporary attitudes toward redistribution are shaped by ancestral inequality,...

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Ancestral inequality and preferences for redistribution

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2026

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Ancestral inequality and preferences for redistribution

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2026

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Ancestral inequality and preferences for redistribution

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2026

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An exploratory approach to land inequality : insights from household surveys

Kweyu, Raphael; Medase, Stephen Kehinde; Naiga, Resty - 2026

To promote social justice and support inclusive development in East Africa, addressing land inequality is essential. Kenya and Uganda illustrate the complex factors driving land inequality in sub Saharan Africa. During colonial times, extensive fertile lands were often alienated from local...

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Lifting the veil of ignorance - survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution

Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2026

We study beliefs about wealth inequality and preferences for wealth redistribution, drawing on a large-scale online survey in Germany. Specifically, we assess participants' knowledge of the German wealth distribution, their perceived position within it, and the effects of two information...

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Lifting the veil of ignorance : survey experiments on preferences for wealth redistribution

Stumpf, Elisa; Übelmesser, Silke - 2024

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