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Is Equality Stable?

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Dilip Mookherjee () (Institute for Economic Development, Boston University)
Debraj Ray

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Paper provided by Boston University - Department of Economics in its series Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series with number dp-121.

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Date of creation: Feb 2002
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Keywords: inequallity dynamics; bequests; imperfect capital markets; human capital;

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