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Working Paper 2021-579 Abstract We estimate yearly inequality in anticipated lifetime earnings—a lower bound on “true” inequality that would apply

Working Paper 2021-578 Abstract The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has brought more attention to measuring poverty among refugee

Working Paper 2021-577 Abstract In many developing countries, the increasing public interest in monitoring economic inequality and mobility is hindered

Working Paper 2021-576 Abstract I propose analysing the dynamics of income positions using dynamic panel ordered probit models. I disentangle,

Working Paper 2021-575 Abstract We review the channels through which the different dimensions of globalization and their interactions impact inequality

Working Paper 2021-574 Abstract This paper asks whether prioritarianism – the view that social welfare orderings should give explicit priority

Working Paper 2021-573 Abstract This paper looks at the social policy responses to the Great Recession and the COVID-19 crisis

Working Paper 2021-572 Abstract We provide an escape route from the opportunity paradox, which is described as a conflict between

Working Paper 2021-571 Abstract The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially

Working Paper 2021-570 Abstract This paper examines the distributional implications of inflation on top income shares in 14 advanced economies

Working Paper 2021-569 Abstract This paper investigates whether global improvements in human development involve sub-national regions in a territorially cohesive