Research ideas tagged “inequality”

Gender gaps in economics and finance academia

Gender gaps and gender bias appear on 60 recent papers, and board gender diversity on 67 more, but only 13 gender papers concern academia or research. Women remain a minority among economics and finance professors and authors in top journals. Where in the pipeline do they drop out, and how do refereeing and citations treat their work?

Papers in the last 30 days — gender gap: 2 · women in science: 1

The return of the wealth tax

Wealth and inheritance taxes appear on 19 recent papers in the economics journals, with 8 in the last quarter against about 4 per quarter before. Several countries are debating or reintroducing taxes on large fortunes. What did the earlier wealth taxes collect, how much wealth left, and what do the new designs change?

The language divide in AI

Low-resource languages are a fast-growing topic in the AI journals, and the digital divide is rising in economics. Language models work worse in languages with little training text, which are spoken mostly in poorer countries. Does that slow AI adoption, and its economic gains, where those languages are spoken?

Papers in the last 30 days — low-resource languages: 1 · digital divide: 9

Inheritance and the new limits of mobility

Intergenerational mobility and transmission appear on 142 recent papers, mostly in economics, and 33 of them carry a wealth, inheritance, housing or parental keyword. As house prices and inheritances grow relative to wages, does where you end up depend more on what your parents own than on what you earn?

Papers in the last 30 days — intergenerational mobility: 2 · intergenerational wealth transfer: 1