utilitarian social welfare function yields a simple welfare measure which comprises both GDP and income inequality as measured by …

large enough to alter the inequality ranking of numerous countries. The average inflation effect we detect is almost as …

), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we …We analyze the effect of income inequality on terrorism for a sample of 114 countries between 1985 and 2012. We provide … inequality on terrorism, where inequality may also contribute to terrorism by leading to weaker institutions. Finally, we show …

We study how measures of socioeconomic health inequality inform about welfare inequality. We argue that transfers of … either income or health from a better off to a worse off individual should reduce welfare inequality. Lacking an objective … measure of individual welfare, we suggest that such a transfer should reduce at least one measure of inequality: inequality in …

This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of … different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of … government, lower fertility rates, and better overall gender equality experienced lower income inequality, ceteris paribus. These …

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early 1990s, is …

This paper investigates whether and to what extent long-run trends in population health affected income inequality in … prevention of these diseases after 1960. The results demonstrate that health improvements contributed to rising income inequality …

The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and …