Publications

Work in progress

  • Cowell, Frank. A and Dirk Van de gaer (2017). Condorcet was wrong, Pareto was right: families, inheritance and inequality. STICERD – Public Economics Programme Discussion Papers 34.

Journal articles

  • Dirk Van de gaer and Flaviana Palmisano (2021), Growth, mobility and social progress, in: Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol.49 (1), 164-182, DOI: 10.1016/1.jce.2020.08.003 .

  • Figueroa, José Luis and Dirk Van de gaer (2021), Did Progresa reduce inequality of opportunity for school re-enrollment?, in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 69 (2), 541-567,DOI: 10.1086/703234.

  • Dirk Van de gaer and Ramos Xavier (2020), Measurement of inequality of opportunity based on counterfactuals, in: Social Choice and Welfare, Vol.55 (3), 595-627, DOI: 10.1007/s00355-020-01261-3.

  • Ramos, Xavier and Dirk Van de gaer (2020), Is inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach? in: Review of Income and Wealth,Vol.67 (1), 18-36, DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12448.

  • Jäntti, Markus and Dirk Van de gaer (2019), Multidimensional analysis and mobility: special issue in homage to Tony Atkinson, in: Journal of Economic Inequality, Vol. 17, 1-4.

  • Morabito, Christian, Van de gaer, Dirk, Figueroa, José Luis and Michel Vandenbroeck (2018), Effects of high versus low quality preschool education: A longitudinal study in Mauritius, in: Economics of Education Review, Vol.65, 126-137.

  • Ramos, Xavier and Dirk Van de gaer (2016), Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures and Evidence, in: Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 30 (5), 855-883.

  • Palmisano, Flaviana and Dirk Van de gaer (2016), History dependent growth incidence: a characterization and an application to the economic crisis in Italy, in: Oxford Economic Papers, Vol 68 (2), 585-603.

Chapters in books

  • Cowell, Frank A., Van de gaer, Dirk and Chang He (2019), Inheritance taxation: redistribution and predistribution, in: Research on Economic Inequality Vol. 26: Inequality, Taxation and Intergenerational, edited by John A. Bishop and Juan G. Rodriguez, Emerald Publishing: Bingley, pp. 1-13.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk (2018), Wat zijn de economische gevolgen van de hervorming van de erfbelasting? In: Patrimonium 2018, edited by W. Pintens and C. Declerck, Die Keure,: Brugge, pp. 493-507.

  • Van de gaer, Dirk (2017), Equality of Opportunity, in: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Behavior, edited by F.M. Moghaddam, SAGE Publications, 255-257.