Drawing on the author’s work, this lecture presents evidence on U.S. income and wealth inequality. It presents series for top income and wealth shares, and the distribution of economic growth by income groups. It discusses the mechanisms behind the evolution of U.S. income and wealth inequality from historical and comparative perspectives. It analyzes the role of public policy and in particular...

OBJECTIVES To assess the nutrition knowledge levels and dietary intake pattern of schoolchildren belonging to two groups of different socio-economic status (SES; high income/high SES and low income/low SES). DESIGN A purposive sampling method was employed. A validated food-frequency questionnaire was administered to assess the dietary intake of schoolchildren in four schools from two differen...

AIM Long-term care systems may alleviate caregiver burdens, particularly for those with fewer resources. However, it remains unclear whether socioeconomic disparity in caregiver burdens exists under a public, universal long-term care insurance (LTCI) system. This study examined income-based inequalities in caregiving time and depressive symptoms in Japanese older family caregivers. We further c...

In this paper we examine the ecological relations between household income distribution and age-grouped mortality in Britain and Japan. Comparable datasets were prepared in terms of age intervals of mortality, household income intervals and geographical units for years around 1990. Then we conducted a series of regression analyses to associate absolute and relative income indices with age and s...

Abstract This paper explores household income per capita for the rural Yi and Manchu ethnic minority groups Han majority using data from China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 2018. The disparity between total populations narrowed, while average population remained relatively similar to that of population. Decomposing its sources shows rapid increase in agricultural among was a main reason w...

In this paper we analyze the trends in polarization in the US and other developed and transitional economies. Many studies have stressed the break in equalizing trends in income distributions in these countries. As polarization has emerged in the literature concerning the issue of income distribution, we here apply new contributions to the measurement of polarization proposed in Esteban, Ray an...

Globally, poorer population groups bear a disproportionate burden of avoidable morbidity and mortality from road traffic injuries. The distribution of road traffic injuries is generally influenced by socioeconomic factors. Poor countries bear a disproportionate burden of injuries and fatalities, and within countries, poor people account for a disproportionate portion of the ill health due to ro...

The anthropogenic consequences of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, economic growth, air transport have been assessed enormously in the literature. However, given complexities many economies world today, it is important to reassess ecological concerns these factors light Environmental Kuznets Curve framework. Therefore, this current study investigates global assessment using data ...

Social capital includes collective features such as social trust, norms, and networks. This paper examines social capital-related variables against demographic, socioeconomic and geographic characteristics of 87,134 adult distance-learning students from Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University.We have found economic stress to be higher in non-married groups, lower income groups, and those residin...

OBJECTIVES Black men who have sex with men and women (MSMW) experience high HIV rates and may not respond to interventions targeting gay-identified men. We tested the efficacy of the Men of African American Legacy Empowering Self (MAALES), a multisession, small-group holistically framed intervention designed to build skills, address sociocultural issues, and reduce risk behaviors in black MSMW....