Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations. …

greater wealth inequality. …When other economic measurements are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well accepted … measures for cumulative and current net nutrition. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI is the ratio of current to …

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds … BMIs and average state-level wealth, and an inverse relationship between BMI and wealth inequality. After controlling for … wealth and inequality, rural agricultural farmers had greater BMI values than their urban counterparts in other occupations …

outcomes. This paper studies the effects of slavery on black-white wealth inequality upon the emancipation of slaves in the US …One approach to analyzing inequality is to compare average economic choices from a classical theoretical framework … using historical data.The purpose of wealth has varied from over time. From an economics perspective, wealth is the …

Sharp declines in wealth-concentration occurred across Europe and the US during the 20th century. But this stylized … fact is based on declared wealth. It is possible that today the richest are not less rich but rather that they are hiding … much of their wealth. This paper proposes a method to measure this hidden wealth, in any form. In England, 1920 …

datasets, I assessed the gender gap in wealth and income, which averaged around 25% across provinces. This indicates that the …

greater wealth inequality …When other economic measurements are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well accepted … measures for cumulative and current net nutrition. However, as the ratio of weight to height, BMI is the ratio of current to …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …