This paper shows that households with positional concerns and convex status utility use gambling to attempt … results strongly indicate that households who care about status are more likely to participate in gambling and invest more in … gambling, while they save less. In addition, results regarding socio-economic and demographic characteristics are reported. For …

The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries … merging data on the geographical location of gambling outlets, together with residents' socio-economic and demographic … standard list of factors such as population size and composition. The Suit Index is calculated based on the spatial estimation …

The distribution of income related health inequalities appear to exhibit varying patterns when developing countries and … developed countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets' curve. This paper sets out as an … per capita) and income inequalities in health (as measured by concentration indices). We draw upon two datasets, the World …