Inequality does cause underdevelopment: Insights from a new instrument ☆

By William R. Easterly. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Development goals in an era of demographic change (2015, background): “Economically, strategies that lead to the sustained underperformance of the B40 may eventually stifl e the economy-wide growth process (Berg, Ostry, and Zettelmeyer 2012; Easterly 2007).”
Individualism–collectivism, governance and economic development (2015, neutral): “Easterly, S. Kurlat, and Wacziarg, R. (2003), ‘Fractionalization’, Journal of Economic Growth, 8: 155–194.”
Landownership Concentration and the Expansion of Education (2016, methodology): “He finds that inequality—measured with the Gini coefficient and as the share of income accruing to the top quintile—has a significant negative causal effect on per capita income (in 2002), institutions, and secondary school enrollment rates for the period 1998-2002 (Easterly, 2007, p. 766, Table 4).”
A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000 (2014, methodology): “Easterly (2007) argues that if these ‘‘resource curse’’ effects operate via inequality, the exclusion restriction is of course not violated.”
Inequality, Democracy, and Institutions: A Critical Review of Recent Research (2010, neutral): “Easterly (2007), using agricultural endowments (the abundance of land suitable for growing wheat relative to that suitable for growing sugarcane) as an instrument for the share of income accruing to the middle quintiles or the Gini index, tested the effect of income inequality.”
Counting Calories: Democracy and Distribution in the Developing World (2011, background): “He finds that when countries 6 This project joins other efforts to find proxies for inequality including family farm ownership (Vanhanen 2005), human height (Boix and Rosenbluth 2006), and the ratio of land suitable for sugarcane versus wheat farming (Easterly 2007).”
Within-Firm Pay Inequality (2017, background): “Rising income inequality has garnered attention in the media and among policy circles.1 What is perhaps less well known is that financial regulators and stock market investors have recently joined the debate by expressing concerns about high income inequalitywithin firms: “High pay disparities…”
Inequality in China – Trends, Drivers and Policy Remedies (2018, background): “This is especially of concern as the recent literature has found that elevated levels of inequality are harmful for the pace and sustainability of growth (e.g., Easterly, 2007; Berg and Ostry, 2011; Berg et al., 2012; Ostry et al., 2014; Ostry et al. 2018; Dabla-Norris et al., 2015).”
Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth (2014, background): “This work builds on a tentative consensus in the growth literature that inequality can undermine progress in health and education, cause investment-reducing political and economic instability, and undercut the social consensus required to adjust in the face of major shocks, and thus that it tends to”