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Inequality (Measurement) [PDF]

open access: possible, 2008
This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion in the second edition of The New Palgrave.
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Inequality and inequity

Social Science Research, 2017
Kelley and Evans (2017) found that income inequality (measured at the societal level) did not affect individual well-being in advanced societies but increased individual well-being in developing societies. This paper discusses how this empirical patterning of the inequality-well-being relationship may arise from mechanisms related to the relationship ...
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Endogenous Inequality [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Review of Economic Studies, 2000
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Persistent Inequality [PDF]

open access: possibleReview of Economic Studies, 2003
Summary: When human capital accumulation generates pecuniary externalities across professions, and capital markets are imperfect, persistent inequality in utility and consumption is inevitable in any steady state. This is true irrespective of the degree of divisibility in investments.
Dilip Mookherjee, Debraj Ray
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GROUP INEQUALITY. [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of the European Economic Association, 2009
We explore the combined effect of segregation in social networks, peer effects, and the relative size of a historically disadvantaged group on the incentives to invest in market-rewarded skills and the dynamics of inequality between social groups. We identify conditions under which group inequality will persist in the absence of differences in ability,
Samuel Bowles   +2 more
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Health inequalities

Sociology of Health & Illness, 2011
AbstractThe evidence bearing on the nature and extent of health inequalities documented globally and in the UK is addressed, twin foci within the UK being (a) associations between socioeconomic classification and health and longevity, and (b) the notion of a ‘social gradient’.
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Bernoulli’s Inequality, the Cauchy–Schwarz Inequality, Chebishev’s Inequality, Surányi’s Inequality

2012
These inequalities fill that part of the knowledge of students necessary for proving more complicated, characteristic inequalities such as mathematical inequalities containing more variables, and inequalities which are difficult to prove with already adopted elementary inequalities.
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Inequity by inequity

Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, 2022
Steven McCullough   +4 more
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