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Working Paper 2022-623 Abstract Do individuals choose their reference groups, i.e. their Joneses, or are they culturally transmitted across generations?

Working Paper 2022-622 Abstract Despite a vast literature documenting climate change negative effects on various socio-economic outcomes, surprisingly hardly any

Working Paper 2022-621 Abstract The paper proposes a framework to assess fairness in multidimensional distributions while respecting individual preferences. We

Working Paper 2022-620 Abstract We estimate, for the first time, long-run trends in intergenerational economic mobility for a multitude of

Working Paper 2022-619 Abstract Global eradication of extreme poverty requires absolute convergence of poverty rates worldwide towards zero. Using data

Working Paper 2022-618 Abstract Natural Gini decomposition (Rao, V. M., 1969, J R Stat Soc Ser A, 132:418–425) and marginal

Working Paper 2022-617 Abstract This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by increasing the returns

Working Paper 2022-616 Abstract The measurement of income inequality is affected by missing observations, especially if they are concentrated on

Working Paper 2022-615 Abstract In this paper, we use EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model of the European Union,to investigate the

Working Paper 2022-614 Abstract This work presents the trend of Inequality of Opportunity (IOp) and total inequality in wealth in

Working Paper 2022-613 Abstract This paper analyses the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on household disposable income and household demand