Income inequality and disparity in resource distribution have drawn a lot of attention recently in the United States. Today, we’ll investigate a variation on the theme, exploring the distribution of a ...

A recent article proposed a histogram-based method for estimating the Lorenz curve and Gini index from grouped data that did not use the group means reported by government agencies. When comparing ...

Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 56, No. 3 (April 2021), pp. 487-508 (22 pages) This paper defines and characterizes the concept of an increase in inverse downside inequality and show that, when the ...

If things seem tough for the average American, you can bet they’re a lot worse for those in lower income brackets. In fact, income inequality in America has increased in many American cities, but a ...