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The Retail Price of Inequality

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David M. Frankel (Tel Aviv University)

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This paper studies the relation between a city's income distribution and its retail price level using panel data. We find that an increase in the presence of lower middle income households, relative to poor or upper income households, is associated with lower prices. Our findings suggest that greater income inequality raises the prices that poor households face, thus making it harder for them to invest in human capital.

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Paper provided by Econometric Society in its series Econometric Society World Congress 2000 Contributed Papers with number 0577.

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