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The Inequality Working Group

A YSI Working Group

the 2 Minute Paper

Our 2min summaries provide a quick overview of academic papers on inequality (and some books). The idea of the 2-minute paper is to crowd-source a literature review that is useful to our group members. If you've recently read an interesting paper or book and would like to submit a summary, please visit our submission page.

Kopczuk: What do we know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.? (2015)

Kopczuk: What do we know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.? (2015)

Kopczuk: What do we know about the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the U.S.? (2015)

The Point: The data we have on wealth inequality is far less reliable than the data we have on income and wages. In this paper, Kopczuk...

Piketty & Saez: Income Inequality in the U.S. 1913-1998 (2003)

Piketty & Saez: Income Inequality in the U.S. 1913-1998 (2003)

Piketty & Saez: Income Inequality in the U.S. 1913-1998 (2003)

The Point: Nearly half a century later, this paper responds to Simon Kuznets' findings. Saez and Piketty find that over the course of the...

Featured Posts

Gimpelson and Treisman: Misperceiving Inequality

Gimpelson and Treisman: Misperceiving Inequality

Gimpelson and Treisman: Misperceiving Inequality

2min+ Book Summary: Bourguignon's The Globalization of Inequality

2min+ Book Summary: Bourguignon's The Globalization of Inequality

2min+ Book Summary: Bourguignon's The Globalization of Inequality

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The Intervention Paradox: A Study of the Effects of International Monetary Fund Intervention on Ineq

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Dual-Polarization Box and Economic Regimes

Movements against Economic Inequality under Twenty-First Century Capitalism

Party ideology and policies where corruption is widespread: evidence from local governments

Same Education, different labour market?

Income inequality and income segregation: the case of metropolitan Lima

Disentangling women's participation in research and its relation to economic development

Beyond Kuznets: Inequality and the size and distribution of cities

The Impact of a Carbon Tax on Inequality in the United States

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