Data Sets from The Network on the Effect of Inequality on Economic Performance
The Network
The establishment of the network has been motivated by recent developments in economics which challenge two views long held by most economists: (1) inequality goes hand-in-hand with a nation's economic success, and (2) reducing economic inequality inevitably leads to compromises in efficiency. For instance, it can be noted that East Asian countries with relatively level income distributions have dramatically outperformed Latin American countries with less equal income distributions. Investments in nutrition, health, and education of poor children have produced not only more economic opportunity but higher economic performance. Indeed, emerging economic theory suggests that inequality may have adverse effects, blunting productive incentives and fueling costly conflicts between haves and have-nots.What is the relationship between inequality and the economic success of nations, firms, and local communities? This question is the central focus of our research network. The network is based out of the University of California, Berkeley.
Visit the network's website for more information:Network on the Effect of Inequality on Economic Performance
The Data
Data from network projects is available to the public through this website. Data producers can uniformly document, store and distribute their data here. The data descriptions and data sets are made available to the general public for browsing and downloading.
How To Use This Website
Uploaded data is available for the public to browse through the "Browse Data Collection" link below. Members of the network (or those who are working for them) may add new data descriptions and data sets using the "Generate New Data" and "Edit data" links below. First time users interested in uploading data should request a username and password by sending an email to data@povertyactionlab.org