Handbook of Income Distribution: Volume 2a-2b (Hardcover)

Part I: Concepts and approaches

1. Income distribution in the history of economic thought.? Agnar Sandmo

2. Inequality, income and well-being.? Marc Fleurbaey, Erik Schokkaert and Koen Decancq

3. Multi-dimensional inequality and poverty.? Andrea Brandolini and Rolf Aaberge

4. Equality of opportunity.? John E. Roemer and Alain Trannoy

5. Polarization.?? Jean-Yves Duclos

6. Statistical methods for distributional analysis.? Frank Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire

Part II Evidence

7. Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth.?? Daniel Waldenstrom and Jesper Roine

8. Post-1970 trends in within-country inequality and poverty.?? Timothy Michael Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson and Salvatore Morelli

9. Post-1970 trends in inequality and poverty in developing and emerging countries.? Facundo Alvaredo and Leonardo Gasparini

10. Income mobility.? Markus Jantti and Stephen Jenkins

11. The Global distribution of income.? Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal

12. Gender inequality.? Dominique Meurs and Sophie Ponthieux

13. Experimental and survey evidence about attitudes to inequality.?? Andrew Clark and Conchita d'Ambrosio

Part III Explanations

14. Inequality in macro-economics.?? Jose-Victor Rios-Rull and Vincenzo Quadrini

15. Wealth and inheritance.?? Thomas Piketty

16. Intra-Household inequality.? Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Costas Meghir

17. Health and inequality.?? Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Tom Van Ourti

18. Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings.?? Wiemer Salverda and Daniele Checchi

19. Cross-country studies of the multiple causes of inequality in the OECD area.?? Michael F. Forster and Istvan Gyorgy Toth

20. Globalization and inequality.? Ravi Kanbur

Part IV: Policies

21. Democracy, political institutions and inequality.?? James Robinson and Daron Acemoglu

22. Equitable development policies.?? Martin Ravallion

23. The welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries.?? Brian Nolan, Ive Marx and Javier Olivera

24. Micro-simulation and policy analysis.?? Holly Sutherland, Alari Paulus and Francesco Figari?