that while income inequality is similar to that of the United States (US), wealth inequality is barely one-third that of … wealth by exploring sources of inequality such as age, education, migration, borrowing ability, and societal systems …This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the …

household surveys, this paper assesses the relationship between patient wealth and the quality and price of antenatal care in … the Democratic Republic of Congo. Overall, the analysis finds a significant wealth-quality gradient, with a standard … deviation increase in wealth being associated with an increase of 4 percentage points in protocol compliance. This increase in …

any analysis based on household surveys, these results could miss important increases in inequality if they are …In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the … distributions, while the poorer deciles in rich countries lagged behind. Although within-country inequality increased in population …

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored …

Wealth and gender inequity in the accumulation of cognitive skills is measured as the association between subject … competency and wealth and gender using the OECD?s Programme for International Student Assessment. Wealth inequity is found to … occur not through disparate household characteristics but rather through disparate school characteristics; little evidence …

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as … inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD … 1947. It applies two new concepts in making those assessments - what the authors call the inequality possibility frontier …

to age 65. Using pooled cross-sectional data from Mexico's National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the … of the elderly population. These effects on extreme poverty are generalizable to all individuals of the treated household …

Using household surveys for 24 countries over a 10-year period, this paper investigates why the elderly are more averse …