ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Semi-Structural Econometric Methods for the Analysis of Inequality
Rising income inequality and related disparities, accompanied by high persistence of socioeconomic outcomes across generations, have become a major public policy concern around the world. Documenting inequality, understanding its determinants, and evaluating policies with the goal of reducing inequality is an important part of empirical research in economics. Widely used statistical tools for quantifying the importance of various drivers of inequality and intergenerational mobility have produced influential findings that are directly, and often informally, interpreted in public and political debates. In these debates, causal and economic meaning tends to be attached to the stylized…
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