Income Inequality

Y. Berman and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 28. 2020.

In this commentary, originally posted on the World Bank’s Let’s Talk Development blog, Pinelopi Goldberg of Yale University discusses why reducing inequality may be essential for growth.

In this research spotlight, a study by Evelyne Huber, Bilyana Petrova, and John D. Stephens shows how labor can limit the effects of the financial sector.

In this interview, Marco Ranaldi discusses his work on measuring the shares of income that come from capital and labor, and what this means for the structure of the economy.

M. Ranaldi and B. Milanovic. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 25. Revised 2020.

A. Adamou, Y. Berman, and O. Peters. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 24. 2020.

G. Alfani. Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 23. 2020.

In this lecture, Branko Milanovic presents how the classical writers François Quesnay and Adam Smith discussed inequality and how their discussion may be interpreted in the terms of interpersonal inequality.

In this interview, Nora Lustig discusses the importance of accurately assessing the very top of the income and wealth distributions when analyzing inequality.

In this presentation, Lane Kenworthy offers an overview of trends in several measures of income inequality across a set of 21 rich democracies.