This study investigates the relationship between conspicuous consumption and inequality in the United States by doing text mining in Google searches for luxury and comfort goods. The findings reveal a strong correlation between the pursuit of luxury items and levels of income inequality in...

Understanding within and between group inequality is fundamental in understanding the evolution of income inequality in any country. Using a century of data for France, and the Theil measure of income inequality, which is decomposable, we show that income inequality within the bottom 90\%...

We hypothesize that the role of education in driving wage inequality is not the same across three racial groups in the United States. Using the Current Population Survey (CPS) data for the period 2000-2021, we show that education weighs at most 33% in explaining the wage inequality. Further, we...

Beginning in the 1980s, India has experienced an acceleration of economic growth by way of a promotion of a more efficient pro business and market oriented model. Following the rapid growth of the 1980s, the 1990s brought continued deregulation through market liberalization policies and...