and negative relationship between inequality and share of nutritional consumption as reflected in the consumption of food …. Finally the paper looks at the empirical relationship between inequality and consumption across districts within states of … India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption patterns via status effect cannot be rejected. In fact the impact …

How does inequality motivate people and at what cost? We develop a model of perpetual youth with heterogeneous upward … survival depends on health capital produced from time investment and health goods. Higher fundamental inequality, working … inequality worsen because the poor have less capacity to respond. By diverting resources from health production, aspirations also …

This paper contributes to the debate over the relationship between inequality and growth by proposing that the … disparities in empirical studies derive from the fact that they have not accounted for the level of inequality as a factor that … inequality exert a positive correlation with economic growth while high levels have a negative one. Additionally, and more …

We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In … our framework, inequality is an emergent property of a theoretical model we develop for the dynamics of individual incomes … in the Gini ratio since 2000. In the youngest age group (from 15 to 24 years), however, the level of income inequality …

The Inequality Process (IP) is a particle system model similar to that of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The IP is a …

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially … income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption … income inequality during the transition. However, the relative well-being of different socioeconomic groups was altered and …