Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2006-07-27
Number: 06-064/3
Author-Name: Laura de Dominicis
Author-Email: ldedominicis@feweb.vu.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Universita' degli di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Author-Name: Henri L.F. de Groot
Author-Email: hgroot@feweb.vu.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Author-Name: Raymond J.G.M. Florax
Author-Email: rflorax@purdue.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: Purdue University, and Vrije Universiteit
Title: Growth and Inequality: A Meta-Analysis
Abstract: In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and empirical approaches have produced ambiguous results on sign and size of this relationship. Although there is a considerable part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to describe variation in observed outcomes of the empirical studies and to identify sources of variation.
Classification-JEL: O11; O15; C42; C52
Keywords: growth; income distribution; inequality; meta-analysis
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