Project Description
The project is about identifying the relationships between individuals’ backgrounds and their economic outcomes. Since background factors such as race, gender and social class at birth are uncontrollable, the inequalities that these factors generate form a particularly socially corrosive.
Project Personnel and Beneficiaries
The project is developing an evidence base guiding economic policy.
Outcomes to Date
We have produced a set of papers modelling the empirical links between background characteristics and economic inequality. We have also produced work quantifying the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive traits in transmitting inequality across generations.
Project Significance
By identifying and measuring structural sources of inequality we are producing evidence that guides egalitarian economic policy.