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Working Paper 2018-457 Abstract A policy intervention entails a distribution of social resources to a target population in order to

Working Paper 2018-456 Abstract We offer a review of methods that have been employed to provide poverty estimates of poverty

Working Paper 2018-455 Abstract We propose a set of new methods to estimate inequality of opportunity based on conditional inference

Working Paper 2018-454 Abstract We present an exercise in empirical optimal taxation for a sample of European countries from three

Working Paper 2017-453 Abstract Unconditional convergence across countries worldwide is typically rejected in Authors: Melanie Krause, Stefan Szymanski. Keywords: unconditional

Working Paper 2017-452 Abstract The paper re-estimates the Gini inequality index for the United States using the Current Population Survey

Working Paper 2017-451 Abstract This paper studies the transmission of wage shocks into consumption across families that exhibit unobserved preference

Working Paper 2017-450 Abstract Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic

Working Paper 2017-449 Abstract This paper focuses on an important aspect of economic inequality – the question of how people

Working Paper 2017-448 Abstract In this paper, we propose the use of a multidimensional approach to the measurement Authors: Marina

Working Paper 2017-447 Abstract This paper uses 1-2-3 survey data on the Democratic Republic of Congo to analyze heterogeneity in