This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there...

In this paper, Gini Regression Analysis (Olkin and Yitzhaki 1992) is applied to check the robustness of the positive correlation of the number of billionaires, billionaires' wealth, and the GDP per-capita, as reported in Prinz (2016). Although Gini Regression Analysis (GRA) as a method exists...

The Gini index is the most widely accepted inequality measure across the Globe, with almost all governmental and international agencies using it to summarise income or wealth inequality in a nation or the world. Although originally developed to be a standardised measure of statistical dispersion...

During the period from 1990 to 2002, U.S. households experienced a dramatic wealth cycle, induced by a 369-percent appreciation in the value of real per capita liquid stock-market assets, followed by a 55-percent decline. However, despite predictions at the time by some analysts relying on...