There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita … deaths per head than have poor countries; their better health systems, higher incomes, more capable governments and better … positive economic growth, pulling it away from poor countries. That these findings are a result of the pandemic is supported by …

2020. Less is known about educational differences in mortality during the pandemic. We examine mortality rates by BA status … the US in recent years and there are good reasons to expect the gap to have widened further during the pandemic. Using … publicly available provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics we find that mortality rates increased in …

There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita … deaths per head than have poor countries; their better health systems, higher incomes, more capable governments and better … result of the pandemic is supported by comparing global inequality using IMF forecasts in October 2019 and October 2020 …

components of well-being, such as economic status, health, family circumstances, and even human and political rights. Layard …