Our Economic Times: New Study Links Income Inequality, Education

This column was published in Savannah Morning News.

As our nation continues to struggle to find an economic and political identity, one thing remains clear: Income inequality continues to be a hot-button issue routinely propelled to the forefront of policy discourse. Though evidence continues to support the view that over time in the U.S. the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer, the determinants of this trend are less clear. Investigating this topic, a group of international economists have uncovered a surprising twist in the latest contribution to the vast research literature: The increasing degree of income equality in the...