The Anatomy of Consumption Inequality: What Drives Differences Across Countries?
by Gintare Mazeikaite, (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER))
This article analyses consumption inequality across nine countries spanning low- to high-income economies, including Mali, Laos, Palestine, Peru, Georgia, France, Italy, the UK, and the US. Using the Lerman-Yitzhaki decomposition, it breaks down the Gini coefficient into individual expenditure components to examine which categories drive inequality most and whether these patterns differ systematically across national contexts.
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