Journal of Economic Inequality

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Inequality is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Poverty-reducing income taxation28
Ageing unequally in Latin America24
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions24
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa16
Migrant wealth in Germany16
Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework15
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 201814
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring14
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality14
Fairness judgments about animals14
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality12
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels12
Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic12
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis12
Preferences for redistributive justice: A participatory-democracy experiment12
Inequality of opportunity in access to and consumption of modern energy in Togo: A parametric approach10
Consumption and borrowing: Land-holding inequality and the effects of cash transfers10
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems10
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland8
The mth Gini index estimator: Unbiasedness for gamma populations7
Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques6
Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take?6
The impact of FDI income on income shares in home countries6
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru6
Equivalence scales revisited: Evidence from subjective data6
Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic6
Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data6
Missing Poor in the U.S.5
Correction to: Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany5
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach5
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics5
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression5
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour4
Inequality acceptance in China: fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy4
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–20144
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China4
Levelling the playing field? SES differences in graduate degree choices*4
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China4
Bayesian inference for income inequality using a Pareto II tail with an uncertain threshold: combining EU-SILC and WID data4
Monetary policy and racial differentials in labor market outcomes4
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves4
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: what has changed after the great recession?4
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile4
Intergenerational home ownership3
Parenthood and the distribution of intra-household inequalities in wellbeing3
Thinking about need3
Uncovering Gatsby Curves3
How does predistribution affect redistribution?3
Being poor and being NEET in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin?3
Central bank independence, income inequality and poverty: What do the data say?3
Does the Gini index represent people’s views on inequality?3
Correction to: Thinking about need3
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves3
Irrigation agriculture and income redistribution3
Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries3
Immigrant key workers: their contribution to Europe’s Covid-19 response3
Gini who? The relationship between inequality perceptions and life satisfaction3
COVID-19 and income inequality: evidence from monthly population registers3
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare3
Inequality and income mobility: the case of targeted and universal interventions in India3
Review: The Handbook of Inequality and Work, by Cynthia Forson, Geraldine Healy, Mustafa Öztürk, and Ahu Tatli2
Book reviews2
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana2
The sources and structure of wage inequality changes in the selected Central-Eastern European Countries2
How information about effort and luck shapes altruism of social preferences: a survey experiment2
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile2
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?2
What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union?2
When government’s economic ideology shapes income redistribution. Empirical evidence from the OECD2
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany2
Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?2
Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach2
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?2
Non-linear impact of minimum wage on poverty and inequality: when raising it fails to help2
Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups2
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters2
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data1
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries1
Review: Hierarchy of needs and the measurement of poverty and standards of living by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?1
Heritability and public policy – a reappraisal1
Inequalities in educational achievement: effect of group capabilities1
Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption: the equal-sacrifice approach applied for the Czech Republic1
Telework and the gender pay gap along the wage distribution1
The shortest confidence interval for the ratio of quantiles of the Dagum distribution1
A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China1
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics1
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era1
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension1
Smoothed instrumental variables quantile regression estimation of wage inequality in the MENA region1
Study strategies during emergency-related distance learning. The role of gender and field of study1
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries1
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter1
Taxation for development: the impact of the Ebola epidemic on citizen support across Western Africa1
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany1
Electoral cycles in inequality1
Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods: evidence from chile’s constitutional process1
Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults1
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data1
Income developments in the great recession: status for the Danish prime-age working population a decade following the onset of the Financial Crisis1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities1
Measuring hearts and minds: A validated survey module on inequality aversion and altruism1
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators1
Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia1
The global distribution of gains from globalization1
A distributional decomposition of birthweight differences by maternal education: A comparison of France and the UK1
Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals1
#MeToo…or not? Do salient shocks affect gender social norms?1
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