Poverty, inequality and social mobility

This study experimentally assesses the effects of temporary wage subsidies on employment in North Macedonia.

In Britain, the headline relative in-work poverty rate steadily rose from 13.4% in 1994–95 to 18.4% in 2019–20. We study the drivers of this increase.

We argue the change in individuals’ Lorenz ordinates—their positions in the Lorenz curve—is informative about economic mobility. 

We analyse state actions to reduce deep-rooted inequality in Latin America, where inherited factors account for 50-60% of disparities in earnings.

In a model calibrated to the US, intra-household consumption inequality explains nearly one-fifth of overall inequality. 

By aggregating age-related epigenetic markers, epigenetic ‘clocks’ have become the leading tool for studying biological aging.

We present new evidence from unique administrative data on child disability in Italy, examining prevalence by geography and age. 

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.

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.

We evaluate the effectiveness of a sanitation marketing intervention aimed at increasing the supply of improved toilet products in rural Nigeria