Further
Readings

Recommended books

1. Normative theories of distributive justice:

• Rawls, J. (1973). A theory of justice. Harvard University Press, Cambridge

• Sen, A. (1995). Inequality reexamined. Oxford University Press, Oxford

• Roemer, J. E. (1998). Theories of distributive justice. Harvard University Press, Cambridge

2. Economists on the history of inequality:

• The long run evolution of wealth-inequality and its causes:
  

  Piketty, T. (2014). Capital in the 21st Century. Harvard University Press, Cambridge

• Education, technology, and inequality:
  

  Goldin, C. D. and Katz, L. F. (2009). The race between education and technology. Harvard University Press

• Global inequality of health and incomes:
  

  Deaton, A. (2013). The great escape: Health, wealth, and the origins of inequality. Princeton University Press, Princeton

• Historical origins – the slave system
  

  Fogel, R. W. (1994). Without consent or contract: the rise and fall of American slavery. WW Norton & Company

• Policy alternatives:
  

  Atkinson, A. B. (2015). Inequality: What Can be Done? Harvard University Press

3. Perspectives outside economics:

• The sociology of social classes:
  

  Wright, E. O. (2005). Approaches to class analysis. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

• Feminist perspectives:
  

  Fraser, N. (2013). Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis. Verso Books

Chapters 4 – 10 are complementing the following external readings; links to each of these can be found in the corresponding chapters:

• Chapter 3
  Topic: The long run evolution of inequality as measured by top income shares
  Method: Pareto distribution, maximum likelihood, (interval) censored data
  

  Atkinson, A. B., Piketty, T., and Saez, E. (2011). Top incomes in the long run of history. Journal of Economic Literature, 49(1): 3 – 71.

• Chapter 4
  Topic: The long run evolution of gender inequality
  Method: Cohort analysis

  Goldin, C. (2006). The quiet revolution that transformed women's employment, education, and family. American Economic Review, 96(2):1 – 21.

• Chapter 5
  Topic: Racial discrimination
  Method: Potential outcomes, treatment effects, randomized experiments
  

  Bertrand, M. and Mullainathan, S. (2004). Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination. American Economic Review, 94(4): 991 – 1013.

• Chapter 6
  Topic: The effect of de-unionization on inequality
  Method: Distributional decompositions, reweighting
  

  Fortin, N. M. and Lemieux, T. (1997). Institutional changes and rising wage inequality: Is there a linkage? The Journal of Economic Perspectives,11(2): pp. 75 – 96.
  
  Firpo, S., Fortin, N., and Lemieux, T. (2011). Decomposition methods in economics. Handbook of Labor Economics, 4:1 – 102.

• Chapter 7
  Topic: Labor demand and labor supply, technical change, immigration
  Method: Estimation of demand systems

  Card, D. (2009). Immigration and inequality. The American Economic Review, 99(2): 1 – 21.
  
  Boustan, L. P. (2009). Competition in the promised land: Black migration and racial wage convergence in the north, 1940 – 1970. The Journal of Economic History, 69(03): 755 – 782.
  
  Autor, D. H., Katz, L. F., and Kearney, M. S. (2008). Trends in US wage inequality: Revising the revisionists. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 90(2): 300 – 323.

• Chapter 8
  Topic: Intergenerational mobility
  Method: Measurement error

Chetty, R., Hendren, N., Kline, P., and Saez, E. (2014). Where is the land of opportunity? The geography of intergenerational mobility in the United States. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129(4): 1553 – 1623.

Black, S. and Devereux, P. (2011). Recent developments in intergenerational mobility. Handbook of Labor Economics, 4: 1487 – 1541.

• Chapter 9
  Topic: The welfare impact of changing prices and wages
  Method: Equivalent variation, conditional causal effects

Deaton, A. (1989). Rice prices and income distribution in Thailand: a non-parametric analysis. The Economic Journal, pages 1 – 37.

Kasy, M. (2014). Who wins, who loses? Tools for distributional policy evaluation. working paper.

• Chapter 10
  Topic: Redistributive taxation
  Method: Computing optimal income tax schedules

Saez, E. (2001). Using elasticities to derive optimal income tax rates. The Review of Economic Studies, 68(1): 205 – 229.