During the 2000s, expenditure inequality in Arab countries was low or moderate and, in
many cases, declining. Different measures of wealth inequality were also lower than …

This study exploits unprecedented access to income data and a combination of newly
developed statistical methods to evaluate income inequality in Egypt and test for potential …

Household income surveys often fail to capture top incomes, which leads to an
underestimation of income inequality. A popular solution is to combine the household survey …

We use panel surveys and wealth indexes based on households' production and non-
production assets to examine economic inequality in three MENA countries–Egypt, Jordan …

Economic inequality across socio‐demographic groups in the Arab region is high and
growing. This paper evaluates the differentials in household expenditures across rural/urban …

In order to understand the main drivers of welfare inequality in Egypt and Tunisia, the
present paper presents an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach used to decompose …

This study investigates evidence of measurement errors among households with the highest
expenditures in eleven harmonized national household-expenditure surveys from five Arab …

Blakely and Snyder (1997) developed the conceptual framework for understanding “gated
communities as a living choice” based on the interactions between their physical, and socio …

Studies of economic inequality have traditionally relied on income or consumption as their
welfare aggregate. This is problematic, because households choose their labor market …