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Working Paper 2017-444 Abstract A growing literature has tried to measure the extent to which individuals have equal opportunities to

Working Paper 2017-443 Abstract The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest

Working Paper 2017-442 Abstract Macroprudential policies, such as caps on loan-to-value (LTV) ratios, have become part of the policy paradigm

Working Paper 2017-441 Abstract This paper studies the relationship between people’s beliefs about the quality of their institutions, as measured

Working Paper 2017-440 Abstract China’s Rural Minimum Living Standard Guarantee program (Dibao) is the largest social safety-net program in the

Working Paper 2017-439 Abstract This paper This paper offers the first empirical evidence on the impact of inequality of opportunity

Working Paper 2017-438 Abstract The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has recently released regional price parities (RPPs) for the 325

Working Paper 2017-437 Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyse to what extent the previous status of children

Working Paper 2017-436 Abstract The aim of this paper is to shed some light on the behaviour of income inequality

Working Paper 2017-435 Abstract As normally measured, “global inequality” is the relative inequality of incomes found among all people in

Working Paper 2017-434 Abstract Should public investment be targeted to big cities or to small towns, if the objective is