addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …

We study the causes of "nutritional inequality": why the wealthy eat more healthfully than the poor in the U … local supply, we reject that neighborhood environments contribute meaningfully to nutritional inequality. Using a structural … reduces nutritional inequality by only nine percent, while the remaining 91 percent is driven by differences in demand. These …

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating …

On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and … horizontal inequality. Using equivalent incomes to adjust for effort can reveal either higher or lower inequality depending on …

survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of … regional national accounts income to regional survey income, which is closely related to the elasticity of underreporting with … respect to income. We find this elasticity to be substantial but roughly constant over time, implying a large but relatively …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and …, in the case of the so-called zero income Shapley decomposition, inequality in Luxembourg is strongly related to income …

investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …