Deaton Review Country Studies: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison of Inequalities in Incomes and Outcomes over Five Decades
Funders Involved: NSF; SSHRC; ESRC; AKA; ANR; BMBF/DLR-PT
The aim of this project is to examine a broad set of inequalities in employment, human capital, earnings and family income over the last five decades in a coherent framework across North America and Europe. It will provide a major source for comparative research on inequality trends and on how the pandemic has affected them. This project will highlight key differences and commonalities across 17 economies, deepen our understanding of the drivers of inequality and the impact of the pandemic and provide evidence needed to design appropriate policy responses to inequality in the post-pandemic world.
Lead Principal Investigator: Professor James P. Ziliak (jziliak@uky.edu), Centre for Poverty Research and Department of Economics, University of Kentucky, USA
Principal Investigators:
Professor Sir Richard Blundell, (r.blundell@ucl.ac.uk), Department of Economics, University College London (UCL), UK
Professor Antoine Bozio, (antoine.bozio@ipp.eu), Paris School of Economics (PSE), Paris, France
Professor David Green, (david.green@ubc.ca), Vancouver School of Economics at University of British Colombia, Canada
Professor Tomi Kyyrä, (tomi.kyyra@vatt.fi), VATT Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki, Finland
Professor Andreas Peichl, (peichl@econ.lmu.de), Ludwig-Maximilian University and Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Munich, Germany