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Assessing Classic Maya multi-scalar household inequality in southern Belize.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
Inequality is present to varying degrees in all human societies, pre-modern and contemporary. For archaeological contexts, variation in house size reflects differences in labor investments and serves as a robust means to assess wealth across populations ...
Amy E Thompson   +2 more
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Do wealth and inequality associate with health in a small-scale subsistence society?

open access: yeseLife, 2021
In high-income countries, one’s relative socio-economic position and economic inequality may affect health and well-being, arguably via psychosocial stress.
Adrian V Jaeggi   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Re: What is Wealth Inequality?

open access: yesStudies in Social Justice, 2022
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Jade Crimson Rose Da Costa
doaj   +1 more source

Wealth taxation in the United States

open access: yesPublic Sector Economics, 2020
The paper analyzes the fiscal effects of a Swiss-type tax on household wealth, with a $120,000 exemption and marginal tax rates running from 0.05 to 0.3 percent on $2.4 million or more of wealth.
Edward N. Wofff
doaj   +1 more source

Is tourism growth able to shrink economic inequalities? A DSGE analysis

open access: yesAnnals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, 2023
The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between inbound tourism and economic inequalities (income and wealth). We construct a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) small open-economy model that includes the tourism industry and ...
Hongru Zhang, Yang Yang
doaj   +1 more source

Growth Effects of Wealth Inequality Through Transmission Channels

open access: yesEconomies
In light of the substantial rise in economic inequality in recent decades across the majority of economies, the relationship between inequality and economic growth has garnered significant attention.
Seyed Armin Motahar, Siab Mamipour
doaj   +1 more source

The Wealth of Ottoman Individuals by Different Socio-Economic Groups, 1650-1918: A Descriptive Analysis in the Context of Institutional Change

open access: yesSDÜ Vizyoner Dergisi, 2022
The study offers a descriptive analysis of individual wealth in the Ottoman Empire, employing a new dataset from inheritance records of 36 different provinces located in Anatolia.
Hande Nur Kırmızıkuşak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Consumption inequality and discount rate heterogeneity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Although standard incomplete market models can account for the magnitude of the rise in consumption inequality over the life cycle, they generate unrealistically concave age profiles of consumption inequality and unrealistically less wealth inequality ...
Sun, Gang
core   +2 more sources

How Video‐Based Information Affects Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Drone Services

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Professional service for digital technology like agricultural drones lowers transaction costs and scope thresholds for smallholders. Meanwhile, perceptual adoption barriers remain underexplored. We conduct a two‐stage choice experiment with a randomized video‐based information treatment among 384 Chinese crop farmers to measure its effect on ...
Hua Zhang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Malaysia Household Wealth Distribution: Current Evidence and Future Prospects

open access: yesInternational Journal of Management Studies, 2012
The paper studies the distribution and inequality of wealth among the household per capita in Malaysia, using the 2007 Malaysia’s Household Income Survey (HIS) data. Consistent with findings from other countries, the distribution of wealth is more skewed
Muhammed Abdul Khalid
doaj   +3 more sources

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