Poverty and inequality

Readings

Required

  • Marco Stampini et al. “Poverty, Vulnerability, and the Middle Class in Latin America,” Latin American Economic Review 25, no. 1 (2016): 4.
  • Michael Albertus “Explaining Patterns of Redistribution Under Autocracy: The Case of Peru’s Revolution from Above,” Latin American Research Review (2015): 107–134.

Personal recommendations

  • Moses Shayo “A Model of Social Identity with an Application to Political Economy: Nation, Class, and Redistribution,” American Political Science Review 103, no. 2 (2009): 147–174.
  • Florencia Torche “Intergenerational Mobility and Inequality: The Latin American Case,” Annual Review of Sociology 40 (2014): 619–642.
  • “Relatively Deprived”, The New Yorker

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