Background: Health inequalitymonitoring especially in Health care financing field is very important. Hence, this study tends to assess the inequality in household's capacity to pay and out-of-pocket health carepaymentsin Tehran metropolis. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in 2013.Thestudy population was selected by stratified cluster sampling, and they constitute the typical...

Mobility implies initial and final distributions and a transition process linking the observations of these two distributions. An inequality index describes properties of the intitial or final distribution. A mobility index describes the transition. In most cases, mobility indices have been developed using properties of transition matrices independently of the concepts of inequality and equity ...

Using three waves of Thailand Household Socio-Economic Surveys in 2006, 2011, and 2017, this paper analyzes the inequality opportunity trend over time its contribution to total wealth Thailand. The empirical results based on non-parametric parametric techniques demonstrate declining overall from 2006 2017. lower bound estimation caused by external factors beyond an individual’s control (i.e., c...

Research on social class and generosity suggests that higher-income individuals are less generous than poorer individuals. We propose that this pattern emerges only under conditions of high economic inequality, contexts that can foster a sense of entitlement among higher-income individuals that, in turn, reduces their generosity. Analyzing results of a unique nationally representative survey th...

The present study seeks to find out how gender, age, area of living, parent background in terms educational level and occupation determine the probability youth be labour market six Sub-Saharan Africa countries. We utilize data from school-to-work transition surveys 2014 2015 ILO. For each country, we first calculate a revised version Human Opportunity Index developed by World Bank. Second, com...

Abstract Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but they take into account the fairness or unfairness of outcome. This article conceptualizes a view unfair and introduces new measure based two widely held principles: equality opportunity freedom from poverty. It develops method for decomposing its trends an fair component...

It is the Policy of Cornell University actively to support equality of educational and employment opportunity. No person shall be denied admission to any educational program or activity or be denied employment on the basis of any legally prohibited discrimination involving, but not limited to, such factors as race, color. creed. religion, national or ethnic origin. sex, age or handicap. The Uni...

We compared all-cause mortality rates stratified by individual-level education and by census tract area-based socioeconomic measures for Massachusetts (1999-2001). Among persons aged 25 and older, the age-adjusted relative index of inequality was slightly higher for the census tract than for the individual education measures (1.5 vs 1.2, respectively). Only the census tract socioeconomic measur...