“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 ...

Professor Deaton (Angus, if I can be so bold to be on a first-name basis with a Nobel Prize winner), sharing this (imagined) meal together is a pleasure. Now that we are on the second bottle of this ...

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of inequality and its contributing factors in 36 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North ...

In an Econfip research brief, Economics Professors Can Erbil and Geoff Sanzenbacher introduce a teaching module to provide basic information about the level and consequences of economic inequality in ...

A frequent criticism of my brand of pro-growth, techno-optimist Up Wing economics is that it ignores inequality: Why boost productivity and economic growth if it only helps those already at the top?

In “Economic Sociology,” Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina presents students with a social and philosophical question. “I ask, ‘How many of you like a lot of inequality?’ Usually ...

To explore how public sentiment can influence minimum wage policies, we zoomed in on protests as a signal of public opinion across the US. We analysed data from over 130,000 protests across US ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the subject. Nicolas Sommet, a social psychologist and research manager at the LIVES ...

A flurry of new books highlights broad disagreements over how to address the problem. “Most of us agree that inequality is a problem — even if we can’t agree on what that actually means and what to do ...

People around the world see various factors as contributing to economic inequality in their country: A median of 60% across 36 countries say that rich people having too much political influence leads ...