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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.

Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, Turner: Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? (2014)

Chetty, Hendren, Kline, Saez, Turner: Is the United States Still a Land of Opportunity? (2014)

The Point: The authors find that intergenerational mobility in the United States has not decreased over time (looking at birth cohorts...

Attanasio and Pistaferri: Consumption Inequality over the Last Half Century (2014)

Attanasio and Pistaferri: Consumption Inequality over the Last Half Century (2014)

The Point: Attanasio and Pistaferri introduce a new imputation method for analyzing consumption inequality in the US. Most studies of...

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

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