evaluative measures are not the same thing, and that they cannot be used interchangeably as measures of "happiness" in welfare …

Covid recession on low- and high-income people. According to our model, two thirds of the inequality in Covid deaths reflect … pre-existing inequality in comorbidity rates and access to quality health care. The remaining third, stems from the fact … income inequality generated by the Covid epidemic reflects the nature of the goods that low-income people produce. Finally …

A number of studies have found that mortality rates are positively correlated with income inequality across the cities … correlated with average black incomes. Between-group income inequality is therefore higher where the fraction black is higher, as … is income inequality in general. Conditional on the fraction black, neither city nor state mortality rates are correlated …

There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita … inequality decreased. When countries are weighted by population, international income inequality increased, not because the … comparing global inequality using IMF forecasts in October 2019 and October 2020 …

, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using …

inequality in life expectancy affects lifetime benefits from Social Security, Medicare, and other programs and how this …

Analysts who have concluded that inequality in life expectancy is increasing have generally focused on life expectancy … in poorer areas with the result that inequality in mortality has fallen substantially over time. This is an important … that today's children are likely to face considerably less inequality in mortality as they age than current adults …