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Wealth distribution in South Africa
How unequal is the wealth distribution in South Africa? In this paper, Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin estimate the distribution of personal wealth
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Wealth inequality dynamics
How to measure wealth inequality dynamics? In this paper, Bertrand Garbinti, Jonathan Goupille-Lebret and Thomas Piketty present a new method to estimate wealth inequality. They
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How have inequalities in educational spending in the US evolved over the past five decades?
Are educational spending in the US more or less equally distributed than in the past ? This working paper by Cécile Bonneau aims to describe
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2019 WIL’s activity report is available
We are glad to share with you the World Inequality Lab 2019 activity report Overview Extension of the World Inequality Database, in particular in
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Argentina’s new government and WIL to cooperate in data production
Paris, February 5th, 2019 – The World Inequality Lab (WIL) met with Alberto Fernandez, President of Argentina, and his delegation, composed of the Minister
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New paper “House Price Cycles, Wealth Inequality and Portfolio Reshuffling”
Business cycle dynamics can shape the wealth distribution through asset price changes, saving responses, or a combination of both. This working paper by Clara Martinez
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New paper on Midcentury American Inequality
The mid-20th century American decline in income inequality has been called “the greatest leveling of all time,” despite a similarly unmatched rate of economic
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Publication of the Human Development Report!
The World Inequality Lab is glad to announce its contribution to the Human Development Report 2019 “Beyond Income, Beyond Averages, Beyond Today: Inequalities in Human Development
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“Ten facts about inequality in advanced economies”
Economic inequality is on the rise after a historic decline, and the trend is especially dramatic in the United States, as outlines the paper “Ten
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