Poverty, inequality and social mobility

Our review demonstrates that measuring welfare at the individual level fundamentally reshapes our understanding of inequality

Focusing on a wave of austerity cuts, I show that police station closure increased violent crimes in census blocks near the defunct stations.

We study the incidence, sources and dynamics of low-wage employment using harmonised linked employer-employee data from six European countries.

An in-person survey in Pakistan and online surveys across multiple countries reveal widespread concern about horizontal equity.

Divorce reshapes family life, yet little is known about one of its most consequential features: the allocation of child custody.

Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across three generations.

Using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS) and Census data, we study multigenerational correlations in education across three generations.

In this paper, we estimate average equivalized consumption measures across 367 local authority districts in Great Britain.

Using four decades of Danish administrative data, we estimate the intergenerational transmission of violent crime victimization.

We derive equivalence scales from the expenditure patterns of households using data from the 1987–2015 Irish Household Budget Survey.

Twentieth-century U.S. data confirm the predictions, rank-based measures co-move while the intergenerational elasticity diverges as inequality rises.

We find that strategically concentrating resources on a single binding constraint maximizes the short-run learning gains per dollar spent.

We study New York City’s Community Schools Initiative using a difference-in-differences design.