Handbook of Income Distribution

Sir Tony Atkinson is Professor of Economics at Oxford University and Fellow of Nuffield College, where he was Warden from 1994 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been President of the Royal Economic Society, of the Econometric Society, of the European Economic Association, and of the International Economic Association. He was knighted in 2001 for services to economics and is Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur. Francois Bourguignon is Director of the Paris School of Economics and Professor of Economics at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales. Among his many distinctions is the Chevalier de L'Ordre Nationale de la Legion de l"Honneur.

Part I: Concepts and approaches 1. Income distribution in the history of economic thought.  Agnar Sandmo 2. Inequality, income and well-being.  Marc Fleurbaey, Erik Schokkaert and Koen Decancq 3. Multi-dimensional inequality and poverty.  Andrea Brandolini and Rolf Aaberge 4. Equality of opportunity.  John E. Roemer and Alain Trannoy 5. Polarization.   Jean-Yves Duclos 6. Statistical methods for distributional analysis.  Frank Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire Part II Evidence 7. Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth.   Daniel Waldenstrom and Jesper Roine 8. Post-1970 trends in within-country inequality and poverty.   Timothy Michael Smeeding, Jeffrey Thompson and Salvatore Morelli 9. Post-1970 trends in inequality and poverty in developing and emerging countries.  Facundo Alvaredo and Leonardo Gasparini 10. Income mobility.  Markus Jantti and Stephen Jenkins 11. The Global distribution of income.  Sudhir Anand and Paul Segal 12. Gender inequality.  Dominique Meurs and Sophie Ponthieux 13. Experimental and survey evidence about attitudes to inequality.   Andrew Clark and Conchita d'Ambrosio

Part III Explanations 14. Inequality in macro-economics.   Jose-Victor Rios-Rull and Vincenzo Quadrini 15. Wealth and inheritance.   Thomas Piketty 16. Intra-Household inequality.  Pierre-André Chiappori and Costas Meghir 17. Health and inequality.   Owen O'Donnell, Eddy van Doorslaer and Tom Van Ourti 18. Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings.   Wiemer Salverda and Daniele Checchi 19. Cross-country studies of the multiple causes of inequality in the OECD area.   Michael F. Förster and Istvan György Toth 20. Globalization and inequality.  Ravi Kanbur

Part IV: Policies 21. Democracy, political institutions and inequality.   James Robinson and Daron Acemoglu 22. Equitable development policies.   Martin Ravallion 23. The welfare state and anti-poverty policy in rich countries.   Brian Nolan, Ive Marx and Javier Olivera 24. Micro-simulation and policy analysis.   Holly Sutherland, Alari Paulus and Francesco Figari