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2024 Activity Report
March 31, 2025 | WID.world

We are delighted to present our 2024 Activity Report. When we started the World Inequality Lab 15 years ago, the idea of a global wealth ... Continue reading

Impact of British colonial gender reform on early female marriages and gender gap in education in India
March 31, 2025 | WID.world

Child marriage remains a pressing global challenge, with approximately 12 million girls married before adulthood each year. Research shows that child marriage negatively impacts women’s ... Continue reading

From housing gains to pension losses: new methods to reveal wealth inequality dynamics in Chile
March 26, 2025 | WID.world

The study of the inequality of wealth holds a central place in the research and policy agendas today. However, very few studies on wealth inequality ... Continue reading

A new framework to study global wealth inequality under climate change published in Nature Climate Change
March 3, 2025 | WID.world

While climate change and climate policies affect both physical capital and financial assets, their impacts on aggregate wealth and its distribution remain underexplored. Preliminary calculations ... Continue reading

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