“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider an infinite particle system, the simple exclusion process, which was introduced in the 1970 paper "Interaction of Markov Processes ...

That’s a phrase we’ve heard over and over again since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Indeed, we all live under the threat of a deadly disease—and a majority of Americans have adhered to public ...

According to the World Happiness Report 2016 Update, happiness inequality is on the rise. What is happiness inequality? It’s the psychological parallel to income inequality: how much individuals in a ...

If economic inequality increases within a country, the risk of civil war breaking out grows. This is the finding from a study by the Chair of Economic History at the University of Tübingen following ...

Faced with the collapse of their argument that income inequality has risen dramatically in recent decades, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s favorite economists have come back with an even more audacious claim.

In this paper we continue our investigation of entropy comparisons with emphasis on multivariate distributions. For multiparameter cases of the multinomial and negative multinomial distributions we ...