Income Distribution -- Global

The following sources are recommended by a professor whose research specialty is global income distribution.

Six Superlative Sources

· Bourguignon, Francois, and Christian Morrisson. 2002. "Inequality among World Citizens: 1820-1992." American Economic Review 92:727-44.

· Firebaugh, Glenn. 2003. The New Geography of Global Income Inequality. Harvard University Press.

· Goesling, Brian. 2001. "Changing Income Inequalities within and between Nations: New Evidence." American Sociological Review 66:745-61.

· Luxembourg Income Study. http://www.lisproject.org/

· Sen, Amartya. 1998. On Economic Inequality. Enlarged edition, with annex by James Foster and Amartya Sen. Oxford University Press.

· UNU/WIDER-UNDP World Income Inequality Database. The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research and the United Nations Development Programme. http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm

Other Excellent Sources

· Allison, Paul. 1978. "Measures of Inequality." American Sociological Review 43:865-80.

· Atkinson, Anthony B. 1983. 2nd edition. The Economics of Inequality. Oxford University Press.

· Cowell, Frank A. 1995. Measuring Inequality. 2nd edition. Prentice Hall, Harvester Wheatsheaf.

· Goesling, Brian. 2001. "Changing Income Inequalities within and between Nations: New Evidence." American Sociological Review 66:745-61.

· Jenkins, Stephen P. 1991. "The Measurement of Income Inequality." Chapter 1 in Economic Inequality and Poverty: International Perspectives, edited by Lars Osberg. M.E. Sharpe.

· Melchior, Arne, and Kjetil Telle. 2001. "Global Income Distribution 1965-98: Convergence and Marginalisation." Forum for Development Studies 1:75-98.

· Pritchett, Lant. 1997. "Divergence, Big Time." Journal of Economic Perspectives 11:3-17.

· Schultz, T. Paul. 1998. "Inequality in the Distribution of Personal Income in the World: How It Is Changing and Why." Journal of Population Economics 11:307-44.

· Shorrocks, Anthony F. 1980. "The Class of Additively Decomposable Inequality Measures." Econometrica 48:613-25.

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