Inequality

We provide new estimates of how the gender wage gap in the US varies over the working life for cohorts of workers born between the 1920s and 1990s.

Many studies show UK women face greater post-childbirth earnings penalties than men, we find these penalties are greater when this child is a girl

Why don't individuals support tax reforms that serve their material interests? We find evidence for misperception of the current incidence of taxes.

This paper examines the distributional consequences of capping nominal UK public sector wage growth for workers earning above £21,000 in the 2010s.

We develop the concept of relative resource shares, defined as the fraction of total adult expenditure that women command within a household.

In this paper, the authors ask what role taxation can or might play in reducing inequality in low and middle-income countries.

We find that parental time investments increase children's human capital, but parents also enjoy time spent with children more than work.

Limited research exists on life-course rural–urban residence and cognitive functions

We document new stylised facts about substantial gifts and loans made in Great Britain.

We provide new evidence that inflation inequality surged during the 2021–2023 cost-of living crisis.

Estimating intra-household sharing is crucial to understanding overall inequality. However, expenditure data is almost always at the household level.

In this paper, we estimate average equivalised consumption measures across local authority districts in Great Britain.

This paper analyses trends in mortality inequality in 330 Chilean communes from 1990 to 2010 for different age groups and both genders.