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Working Paper 2020-555 Abstract This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by

Working Paper 2020-554 Abstract We propose an axiomatic approach to characterize normative criteria for the evaluation of lifetime income distributions

Working Paper 2020-553 Abstract We use newly collected original panel data on the super-wealthy individuals in Poland (observed over 2002-2018)

Working Paper 2020-552 Abstract In producing the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) thresholds and subsequent statistics, it is assumed that all

Working Paper 2020-551 Abstract We provide the first attempt to understand how differences in households’ socio-demographic and economic characteristics account

Working Paper 2020-550 Abstract We present a unified approach to the design of social index numbers. Our starting point is

Working Paper 2020-549 Abstract This study was motivated by reports of a mismatch between inequality experienced on the streets across

Working Paper 2020-548 Abstract I study income poverty indices in a framework considering two poverty lines: one absolute line capturing

Working Paper 2020-547 Abstract Approximating the top of income distributions with smooth parametric forms is valuable for descriptive purposes, as

Working Paper 2020-546 Abstract The first Millennium Development Goal was to halve extreme absolute poverty over the period 1990-2015. This

Working Paper 2020-545 Abstract This paper’s distinctive feature is a shift towards a novel definition of a measure of income