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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.

How Much Inequality is Fair? (Venkat Venkatasubramanian 2017)

The Book can be accessed here. Summary: Extreme economic inequality is widely seen as a serious threat to the future of stable and...

Social policy in Brazil (2004-2014): an overview

The paper can be accessed here The point: I tried to demonstrate the relationship between the positive evolution of social policies in...

Featured Posts

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

Recent Posts

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

The Determinants of Education Loans: Evidence from the 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances

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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