In this paper, Edison Jakurti studies how people think inheritances should be taxed using a randomized factorial vignette experiment with 8,106 respondents from probability-based panel surveys across ...

TRIBUNE. Avant l’Assemblée générale des Nations unies, fin septembre, dix économistes, parmi lesquels Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz et Gabriel Zucman expliquent, dans une tribune au «...

More than 1,500 academics and economists sign letter, calling growing gap between richest and poorest ‘a policy choice that can be reversed’

Would it be possible for every country to one day achieve a national income of about €5,000 per month per person, a level close to what is currently observed in the richest countries, while also ma…

In this paper , Simon Briole and Camille Salesse focus on the effect of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), the pollutant responsible for the largest share of health and economic damages attributable to ...

Disparities in income and wealth are growing. A scientific assessment process can give governments the information they need to tackle them.

La France va faire des choix politiques décisifs dans l’année qui vient. D’un côté, une droite nationaliste en plein essor, de plus en plus proche des milieux d’affaires, et qui entend arriver au p…

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

Cutting hours through outsourcing Olivier Godechot and Ulysse Lojkine study the effects of on-site outsourcing of low-skilled service jobs (cleaning, catering, security) in France.

Land Inequality in India: Nature, History, and Markets In this paper, Nitin Kumar Bharti, David Blakeslee, and Samreen Malik study how agricultural suitability, historical institutions, and market acc...

César Castillo-García reconstructs Peru’s factor income shares and macroeconomic aggregates from 1942 to 2022 using the Distributional National Accounts (DINA) methodology and historical national acco...

The Global Democratic Deficit: Undemocratic international institutions favor powerful countries—and shape who pays and who benefits Paula Druschke and Gastón Nievas construct a novel historical databa...

The Global Democratic Deficit: Undemocratic international institutions favor powerful countries—and shape who pays and who benefits Paula Druschke and Gastón Nievas construct a novel historical databa...

Should Charitable and Political Donations Benefit from Similar Tax Treatments? Evidence from a Survey Experiment In this paper, Julia Cagé, Malka Guillot, and Yuchen Huang study how tax incentives aff...

Let’s spell it out directly: The militaristic drift of the United States that we are witnessing with the war in Iran resonates above all as a terrible admission of weakness. American elites h…

Une étude de l’Institut des politiques publiques, menée par les chercheurs Pauline Charousset et Julien Grenet, alerte sur les évolutions en cours, notamment dans la capitale. Elle pose le risque d’un...

This paper studies skin tone discrimination in men’s professional football by comparing shots that narrowly score with those that narrowly miss the goal.

To assert itself on the world stage, Europe first has to take pride in what it has become since 1945: a democratic, social and transnational power. European countries, which had long been fierce ri…

Mapping The Redistributive Debates In Norway And The United States This paper studies pro-redistributive arguments in legislative debates in the U.S. Congress and the Norwegian Storting from 2015 to 2...

The year 2025 was marked by the Trump shock: an unprecedented wave of extreme brutality, unapologetic nationalism, and unrestrained extractivism that shook the world as never before since 1945. To …

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Racial Inequality and Redistribution in Post-Apartheid South Africa The source for global inequality data. Open access, high quality wealth and income inequality data developed by an international aca...

How can France break out of its political deadlock? First, by accepting the idea that democracy requires clear and accepted transfers of power to function properly. Always keeping the same people i…

Upward mobility is primarily driven by labor income but almost never by capital alone This paper studies the dynamics of capital and labor income mobility using high-quality register data from Norway.

Énergie et inégalités, Lucas Chancel : Pourquoi l’histoire de l’énergie est-elle intimement liée à celle des inégalités sociales ? Comment penser...

Confronted with the impact of Donald Trump's policies, Europe – like other parts of the world – has no choice but to fundamentally rethink its trade rules. To put it plainly: If Europe does not urgent...

Dans un entretien au « Monde », le professeur à Sciences Po estime que la reprise de contrôle du secteur énergétique par les citoyens permettrait de mieux lutter contre les crises climatiques et démoc...