March 2025

The Latin America and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR) Supplement in Oxford Open Economics

Editorial

Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: a wide ranging review, by Orazio Attanasio, Ana L de La O, Francisco H G Ferreira, Ana Maria Ibáñez, and Julián Messina

Levels and trends of inequality: establishing the facts

Inequality bands: seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America, by Facundo Alvaredo, François Bourguignon, Francisco H G Ferreira, and Nora Lustig
Wealth inequality in Latin America (2000-2022): data, facts and conjectures, by Rafael Carranza, Mauricio De Rosa, Ignacio Flores
Farm size and income distribution of Latin American agriculture: new perspectives on an old issue, by Margarita Gáfaro, Ana María Ibáñez, María Camila Ortiz, Daniel Sánchez-Ordóñez
Education inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Raquel Fernández, Carmen Pagés, Miguel Székely, Ivonne Acevedo
Health inequalities in Latin American and the Caribbean: child, adolescent, reproductive, metabolic syndrome and mental health, by Antonella Bancalari, Samuel Berlinski, Giancarlo Buitrago, María Fernanda García, Dolores de la Mata, Marcos Vera-Hernández

Inequality of opportunity: nature and determinants

Inequality of opportunity and intergenerational persistence in Latin America, by Paolo Brunori, Francisco H G Ferreira, Guido Neidhöfer
Inequality in the early years in LAC: a comparative study of size, persistence and policies, by Orazio Attanasio, Florencia Lopez-Boo, Diana Perez-Lopez, Sarah Anne Reynolds
Family change in Latin America: schooling and labor market implications for children and women, by Albert Esteve, Andrés F Castro Torres, Federica Becca
Gender inequality in Latin America, by Inés Berniell, Raquel Fernández, Sonya Krutikova
Racial inequality in Latin America, by Edward E Telles, Stanley R Bailey, Shahin Davoudpour, Nicholas C Freeman
Spatial inequality and income disparities in Latin America: a multiscale analysis, by Andrés Gómez-Lobo, Daniel Oviedo

Inequality and markets: the roles of labor, capital and goods markets

Businesses and inequality in Latin America, by Marcela Eslava, Marcela Meléndez, Gabriel Ulyssea, Nicolás Urdaneta, Ignacio Flores
Inequality and market power in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Marcela Eslava, Alvaro García-Marín, Julián Messina
Globalization and inequality in Latin America, by Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Brian K Kovak
Minimum wage policy and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, by T H Gindling, Lucas Ronconi
Labor market turnover and inequality in Latin America, by Naercio Menezes-Filho, Renata Narita

Taxation and redistribution: governments levelling the playing field?

Fiscal policy, income redistribution, and poverty reduction in Latin America, by Nora Lustig, Valentina Martinez-Pabon, Carola Pessino
Distributional effects of taxation in Latin America, by Carola Pessino, Alejandro Rasteletti, Daniel Artana, Nora Lustig
Cash transfers, poverty, and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Marco Stampini, Nadin Medellín, Pablo Ibarrarán
Calculating the redistributive impact of pension systems in LAC, by Alvaro Altamirano, María Laura Oliveri, Mariano Bosch, Waldo Tapia
Health systems and health inequalities in Latin America, by Antonella Bancalari, Samuel Berlinski, Giancarlo Buitrago, María Fernanda García, Dolores de la Mata, Marcos Vera-Hernández
Preferences for redistribution in Latin America, by Matias Busso, Ana María Ibáñez, Julián Messina, Juliana Quigua

Inequality and political power: structures and struggles

Origins of Latin American Inequality, by Francisco Eslava, Felipe Valencia Caicedo
Weak parties and the inequality trap in Latin America, by Noam Lupu
The interaction of economic and political inequality in Latin America, by Leopoldo Fergusson, James A Robinson, Santiago Torres
The political economy of redistribution and (in)efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Matias Guizzo-Altube, Carlos Scartascini, Mariano Tommasi
Opting out of public services and the social contract in Latin America, by Ana L De La O, Cecilia Rossel, Pilar Manzi

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