persisted. This paper attempts to explain wealth-based inequalities in child mortality and malnutrition using a regression … decomposed into the contributions of wealth-based inequality in the observed determinants of child health. Results indicate that … health are (i) inequality in the distribution of wealth itself, and (ii) inequality in maternal education. The contributions …

We explore relationships among BMI variation, wealth, and inequality in the 19th century US. There was an inverse … relationship between BMI and average state-level wealth and a small, inverse relationship with wealth inequality. After controlling … for wealth and inequality, farmers had greater BMI values than workers in other occupations, and blacks had greater BMI …

Abstract This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a … range of children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which … of the association reflects the indirect effect of parental wealth on children’s education whereas for homeownership the …

David Ricardo’s criticisms of Adam Smith on value and wealth have been rather ignored in the recent revival of … Ricardian economics. This essay intends to fill the gap by revisiting Smith’s link between value and wealth in the light of … section is to dissolve Smith’s terminological inaccuracies or contradictions on the issue of value and wealth. This is done by …

Prior research has found evidence of large racial and gender disparities in wealth, with blacks possessing less wealth … than whites and women having less wealth than men. An intersectionality approach suggests that the overlapping impacts of … precarious economic position. However, little is known about the wealth holdings of black women and even less is known about …

This paper investigates the issue of whether or not the top world wealth distribution is Paretian in nature. To this …

Hart (2009). The axioms are based on the concept of "wealth requirement." …

The body of literature on the relationship between risk aversion and wealth is extensive. However, little attention has … been given to examining how future realizations of wealth might affect (current) risk decisions. Using paired lottery … choice experiments and exposing subjects experimentally to imagined future wealth frames, I find that individuals are more …