, relative poverty which makes good use of the information made available by recent research on inequality. We detect a long …

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of …, the UK, and the US between 1903 and 2003. Although this measure is not a good proxy for inequality within the bottom half …

here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of … considerable debate, and there was an inverse relationship between material inequality and stature. The paper also supports a bio …

multidimensional well-being from a capabilities perspective during the last one-and-a-half centuries. Relative inequality (population … development. These results are at odds with per capita income inequality that rose over time and only shrank from 1990 onwards … evolution of augmented human development inequality, although longevity made a substantial contribution until the 1920s. …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

educated parents perceive the returns to health investments to be lower, thus contributing to the socioeconomic inequality in …