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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

Working Paper 2017-433 Abstract The high inequality in China has been a focus of interest for policy makers and researchers.

Working Paper 2017-432 Abstract Standard income inequality indices can be interpreted as a measure of welfare loss entailed in departures

Working Paper 2017-431 Abstract We focus on a question that has been long addressed in economics, namely, of one distribution