This study investigates the relationship between individual and household characteristics and income inequality in Central America, the Dominican Republic and Mexico from 1990 to 2002. A Theil decomposition exercise of ...

Using household surveys that cover more th3n 50 ye3rs of the political 3nd economic history of Chile, we investigate changes in the shape of the distribution of income in Chile, and in the composition of top 10% and top ...

The inverse relationship between land productivity and farm size is an old and puzzling empirical regularity. Most explanations for this relationship rely on market imperfections that jointly determine the farm size and ...

This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by increasing their labor force ...