Using the example of educational attainment, returns to education and female labour force participation, the income distribution is shown to depend on household endowment, the remuneration of those endowments, and labour force participation behaviour. Then, the next section uses subjective data to show that societies have strong and changing views about inequality, which can influence how redistributive policy addresses inequality in the income distribution. That reversal will be short-lived, however, if sustained growth is not extended to the broader developing world.