This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in … university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank … effects. First, earlier ranks are less important than later ranks. Second, responses to rank changes are asymmetric …

This paper reviews methods for studying dominance and inequality in health economics. It concentrates on "pure … inequality" as opposed to inequality which is related to income or some other measure of household resources. The paper reviews …

, quality of life and mortality. Understanding inequality in relation to these behaviours among older people is important in the … context of a rapidly ageing population. In this study, we examine income-related inequality in relation to these three key … indices and decompose them to determine the factors which contribute most to inequality. We then examine whether differences …

presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …