"The Dynamics of Inequality in Spain"
José Fernández-Albertos

The paper has two main objectives. The first is to provide a comprehensive picture of the evolution of inequality during the economic expansion of Spain in the second half of the 20th century. The second is to study the determinants of the evolution of inequality over time.

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"A Turning Point? Recent Developments on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean"
Leonardo Gasparini, Guillermo Cruces, Leopoldo Tornarolli and Mariana Marchionni

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world.

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"Intergenerationalities: Some Educational Questions on Quality, Quantity and Opportunity"
Ravi Kanbur

This paper raises a number of issues in thinking about and addressing the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. Starting with choice subject to constraints by parents as determining outcomes for children, the paper identifies sequences of interventions to relieve “binding constraints” in the expansion of education. But the fact that parents choose for children is shown to raise a number of questions on normative aspects of inequality measurement.

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