This paper introduces a family of multi-period poverty measures
derived from commonly used static poverty measures. Our measures
trade-off…
Much of the inequality literature has focused
on national inequality, but local inequality is also important. Crime
rates are higher in…
Decades of
racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt
that discrimination remains an important cause of…
This book is a dialogue about poverty in North America, especially in Mexico and the United States. Poverty has different roots and…
Iceland (1) has claimed the top spot of the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index 2009 from Norway (3) which slipped to third…
Regression-based studies of inequality model only between-group differences,
yet often these differences are far exceeded by residual…
Book Abstract: This book offers a much-needed investigation of moral and political issues concerning disability, and explores how the…
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India,
we ran an exam competition through…
For many years social scientists have debated the role of social structure versus culture in explaining the social and economic outcomes of…
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality presents a new and challenging analysis of economic inequality, focusing primarily on economic…