Our EU Vox post highlights the inverted-U pattern followed by #inequality in most countries in #LatinAmerica between the 1970s and mid 2010s. It also records the huge uncertainty around level estimates. With Nora Lustig, F. Alvaredo, and F. Bourguignon.
cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

Great to see the impact of and recognition for Alpa Shah 's amazing work on one of India's most egregious recent human rights violations. LSE Inequalities 👇🏾

This promises to be an amazing panel on #inequality in #LatinAmerica . Imperdible! 👇

Must-read piece by Francisco H. G. Ferreira on wide disparities in inequality ests. Comparing WIDER & WID (Piketty) ests for Peru, the top 1% cd either be earning 8% OR 28% of total income, depending on which one you believe. Inequality matters but measurement is complicated.

Depending on which (respected) database you look at, the richest 1% of Peruvians earn 8% or 28% of total income... Differences in data sources, concepts and methods make a huge difference to the inequality estimates made available to the public. Which one, if any, is right? 👇🏾

Full house and fabulous event tonight at ⁦LSE Events⁩ ⁦LSE Inequalities⁩ featuring ⁦Gary Stevenson⁩ & Rebecca Gowland discussing finance, economics, wealth, and how to tackle inequality..

🇪🇺 On the 3rd April from 15:00 to 16:00 CET, the III's Pedro Salas Rojo will be delivering a seminar on 'Inherited inequality: a general framework and an application to South Africa' for the European Commission's Fiscal Policy Analysis Unit.
🔗 Link to the session: ow.ly/6VvH50QZwRN

Wow! Though I am not surprised that Gary Stevenson brilliant book is a best seller - come along to LSE Inequalities LSE Events launch on Thursday at 6.30 if you want to hear Gary talk, in discussion with Rebecca Gowland from Patriotic Millionaires! A don’t miss event!

Looking forward to the launch of Alpa Shah's 'The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India'.
🎟️Join us on the 26th: ow.ly/SkHh50QMqmK

Thanks to Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo and Ana María Ibáñez for the partnership in #LACIR : 3 years, 27 papers and 60+ scholars trying to better understand why inequality in Latin America remains so high.
My keynote at #AsambleaAnualBID described two systems of inequality reproduction in the region.

🌎70yrs of measuring income #inequality in #LatinAmerica

👉 Though exact levels remain elusive, studying inequality bands shows broad dynamic patterns.

👉Most countries followed an inverted U curve from the 1970s to 2010s.

Check out more findings:▶️wid.world/news-article/s…

We hope to see you there! 👇

It *was* a great conference. Despite my keynote talk…

A landmark volume in our understanding of how democracy in the “largest democracy in the world” is being undermined. Alpa Shah provides a magisterial account of how the arbitrary violation of the rights of a few threaten the basic freedoms of many. 👇

At a time when, as a topic, inequality has the highest profile it has had in Economics for a long time, you’d think we would all agree on how much of it there actually is in a given country on a particular year, right? Think again… 👇

The Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Bari, in collaboration with LSE Inequalities, is organizing the conference “Equality of Opportunity and Intergenerational Mobility: A Global Perspective”, which will take place in Bari on June 6th and 7th, 2024.

In #LatinAmerica , we find that as much as 60% of overall inequality observed today is inherited from our parents and/or accounted for by race, gender, and place of birth -- the worst kinds of inequality. Drawing on work with Guido Neidhöfer and Paolo Brunori for #LACIR , Inter-American Development Bank

This should be excellent! 👇👇

The machine learning method we use here is based on “trees”: we let the data tell us how to split the sample into the groups with the most salient differences. So you get a “social map” of opportunity hoarding and deprivation for each country. 👇👇

Intergenerational mobility (rather, persistence) and inequality of opportunity are special cases of a more general framework. The inequality in incomes that can be predicted by inherited personal circumstances. These account for 75% of all inequality in South Africa! 👇🏾👇🏾