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WEALTH INEQUALITY AND ACCUMULATION. [PDF]
Annu Rev Sociol, 2017 Research on wealth inequality and accumulation and the data upon which it relies have expanded substantially in the twenty-first century. Although the field has experienced rapid growth, conceptual and methodological challenges remain. We begin by discussing two major unresolved methodological concerns facing wealth research: how to address challenges
Killewald A, Pfeffer FT, Schachner JN.
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Wealth Inequality: Opportunity or Unfairness? [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 This paper presents evidence of a new propagation mechanism for wealth inequality, based on differential responses, by education, to greater inequality at the start of economic life. It is motivated by a novel positive cross-country relationship between wealth inequality and perceptions of opportunity and fairness, which holds only for the more ...
Haliassos, Michael +2 more
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Comparing Child Wealth Inequality Across Countries
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2021 This article compares the wealth situation of children across fourteen countries. Children experience lower levels of wealth than the rest of the population, seniors in particular.
Fabian T. Pfeffer, Nora Waitkus
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The Evolution of Inequality in Latin America in the 21st Century: What are the patterns, drivers and causes? [PDF]
PSL Quarterly Review, 2018 The paper analyses the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. The drivers of changes in inequality and possible underlying causes are examined,
Francesco Bogliacino +1 more
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A new approach to social inequality: inequality of income and wealth in South Korea
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020 This paper attempts to provide a new approach to social inequality, focusing on income and wealth inequality and the relationship between income inequality and wealth inequality.
Kwang-Yeong Shin
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Wealth and wealth inequality in adult HIV prevalence
Journal of Global Health Reports, 2021 # Background Studies investigating a correlation between economic status of household (wealth or income) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence have shown relationships ranging from insignificant to strong-positive.
Gary Gaumer +3 more
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Market integration, income inequality, and kinship system among the Mosuo of China
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2023 Increased access to defensible material wealth is hypothesised to escalate inequality. Market integration, which creates novel opportunities in cash economies, provides a means of testing this hypothesis.
Siobhán M. Mattison +9 more
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Modeling the Origin and Possible Control of the Wealth Inequality Surge. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The rapid increase of wealth inequality in the past few decades is a most disturbing social and economic issue of our time. In order to control, and even reverse that surge, its origin and underlying mechanisms should be revealed.
Yonatan Berman +2 more
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The U.S. Wealth Distribution: Off the Charts
Socius, 2022 Although extreme and rising levels of U.S. wealth inequality have generated much public and scientific interest, building intuition on the shape and scale of today’s wealth distribution remains difficult. Prior research tends to conceptualize and measure
Fabian T. Pfeffer, Asher Dvir-Djerassi
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Socioeconomic inequality in smoking: Evidence from a decomposition analysis
Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2023 Problem: Vietnam is a lower-middle-income country with a very high prevalence of smoking among men. The poor are more likely to smoke than the better off.
Cuong Viet Nguyen +3 more
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