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  • November 22, 2014
  • Article

Profits Don't Create Inequality

By: Amar Bhidé
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  • 29 Aug 2022
  • News

Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?

  • June, 2025
  • Article

Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality

By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
Recent influential work finds large increases in inequality in the U.S. based on measures of wealth concentration that notably exclude the value of social insurance programs. This paper shows that top wealth shares have not changed much over the last three decades when... View Details
Keywords: Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Taxation; Insurance; Welfare
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    Inequality regimes in Africa from pre-colonial times to the present

    While current levels of economic inequality in Africa receive ample attention from academics and policymakers, we know little about the long-run evolution of inequality in the region. Even the new and influential ‘global inequality literature’ that is associated... View Details

    • September 2014
    • Article

    Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

    By: William R. Kerr
    In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern,... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Government and Politics
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Inequality and Decision Making: Imagining a New Line of Inquiry

    By: David Moss, Anant Thaker and Howard Rudnick
    The substantial increase in inequality in the United States over the past three decades has provoked considerable debate, with some analysts characterizing rising inequality as among the greatest threats facing the nation and others dismissing it as little more than a... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Decision Making; Government and Politics; Economics; United States
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    • March 2024 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    South Africa: Growth and Inequality

    By: Marco Tabellini and Marlous van Waijenburg
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    • 08 Mar 2024
    • HBS Conference

    Inequality in the Digital Age

    • Awards

    INFORMS/Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition

    By: Summer R. Jackson
    Winner of the 2020 INFORMS Best Dissertation Proposal Competition for “Understanding Organizational Inequality at ‘Well Intentioned’ Companies: The Case of ShopCo’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies and Practices.” View Details
    • January 2025
    • Teaching Note

    South Africa: Growth and Inequality

    By: Marco Tabellini, Marlous van Waijenburg and Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-038. View Details
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      Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-job Inequality

      In this article, we examine a case of task segregation—when a group of workers is disproportionately allocated, relative to other groups, to spend more time on specific tasks in a given job—and argue that such segregation is a potential mechanism for generating... View Details
      • July 2022
      • Article

      The Developmental Origins and Behavioral Consequences of Attributions for Inequality

      By: Antonya Marie Gonzalez, Lucia Macchia and Ashley V. Whillans
      Attributions, or lay explanations for inequality, have been linked to inequality-relevant behavior. In adults and children, attributing inequality to an individual rather than contextual or structural causes is linked to greater support for economic inequality and less... View Details
      Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Behavior; Perception
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      • 09 Sep 2015
      • News

      Survey: US more competitive globally, but inequality a risk

      • January 2023
      • Article

      Inequality Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa from Precolonial Times to the Present

      By: Ewout Frankema, Michiel de Haas and Marlous van Waijenburg
      While current levels of economic inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa receive ample attention from academics and policymakers, we know little about the long-run evolution of inequality in the region. Even the new and influential ‘global inequality literature’ that is... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Inequalty; Equality and Inequality; History; Africa
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      • 20 Jan 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

      Keywords: by William R. Kerr
      • 18 Feb 2015
      • News

      Steve Grossman, Michael Porter team up on income inequality

      • 16 Sep 2014
      • News

      Harvard Study Warns Business Community Of Economic Inequality Risks

      • 19 Aug 2013
      • Research & Ideas

      Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

      It's clear that inequality in America has grown at a fast clip in recent years. From 1980 to 2010, the top 1 percent's share of income has doubled from 10 percent to 20 percent, while the income share of the bottom 90 percent fell from 65... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 18 Oct 2016
      • News

      How unequal should America be? Take this inequality quiz.

      • 13 May 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality

      Keywords: by Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato