Martín Román, JavierAyala Cañón, LuisVicente, Juan2025-01-302025-01-302024-07-19Ayala, L., Martín-Román, J., & Vicente, J. (2024). What contributes to rising inequality in large cities? Journal of Regional Science, 64, 1760–1810. https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.127251467-9787https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12725https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/25680The registered version of this article, first published in “Journal of Regional Science, 64, 1760–1810,", is available online at the publisher's website: Wile:, https://doi.org/10.1111/jors.12725This paper aims to analyze the trends in income inequality in large cities within a selected sample of OECD countries. Specifically, we consider a set of individual characteristics that account for changes in the income distribution and estimate their contribution to differences in inequality in large cities over the last two decades. We use a combination of reweighting techniques and recentered influence functions (RIF) to detect an upward trend in inequality within large cities. This result is mainly driven by changes in the returns to endowments rather than by changes in its distribution. Our findings suggest that these results are not of the same magnitude across the countries analyzed. A key finding is that the contribution to inequality of the skill premium is considerably higher in North American countries than in European countries.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho::5605 Derecho y legislación nacionales::5605.06 Derecho fiscalartículocounterfactual analysisincome inequalitylarge citiesRIF‐OLSdecomposition