Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, and Openness( Population and Globalization)
Year: 2002
Type: article
Abstract: Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality database for a panel of countries from the ῍ΐῑῌs to the ῍ΐΐῌs.We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort-size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand effects; and the commitment to globalization or policy effects.We also control for education supply, the so-called natural resource curse, and other variables suggested by the literature.While the Kuznets Curve comes out of hiding when the inequality relationship is conditioned by the other two, cohort size seems to be the most important force at work.We offer a resolution to the apparent conflict between this macro finding on cohort size and the contrary implications of recent research based on micro data.
Authors: Matthew Higgins, Jeffrey G. Williamson
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W80130073