Economics for everybody: Changing political cleavages in 21 Western democracies by Amory Gethin
Institutes and laboratories : World Inequality Lab
The World Inequality Lab (WIL) is a research laboratory focused on the study of inequality worldwide.
Presentation
For almost ten years, the WIL has been producing and promoting research on the various dimensions of inequality, both between and within countries, in order to inform the public debate. The WIL hosts the World Inequality Database (WID), the most extensive open-access public database on the historical evolution of economic inequality. Based primarily at the Paris School of Economics, a team of thematic and regional coordinators works to regularly update the database in collaboration with an international network of over 200 affiliated researchers.
Objectives
The laboratory’s missions are to:
- Produce data-driven research on inequality through working papers, reports, project and tools;
- Inform the public debate on inequalities by organizing events and speaking to the media;
- Update and expand the World Inequality Database.
Research themes
- Evolution of income and wealth inequalities
- Environmental inequalities
- Dynamics of global wealth distribution
- Factors contributing to income inequality
- Political inequalities
- Gender inequalities
- Perceptions of inequality
- Taxes and tax evasion
- For more information, visit the WIL’s website
- For the latest synthesis on global inequalities, explore the 2022 World Inequality Report