Common economic measurements, like GDP growth, tell us how fast the economic pie is growing. But it doesn’t tell us who’s getting a slice.

Does it matter what is happening to world income distribution (among all 6.2 billion people, regardless of where they live)? Amartya Sen, the recent Nobel laureate in economics, warns that arguing ...

Global wealth is concentrated at the top. This is true for all countries to varying degrees. The U.S. already ranks towards ...

Income inequality is a significant global issue that affects social cohesion, economic stability, and sustainable development. One of the best methods that governments can use to lessen this ...

California's wealth divide has reached one of the highest levels in the nation, according to Census Bureau data.

economic inequality hasn’t risen as much as conventional wisdom would suggest. While these two arguments have the same ...

Both the UN and several Nobel laureates have said that political and economic inequality is a driver of high carbon emissions ...

"Even when we expose people to identical levels of income inequality in controlled ... the factors that shape attitudes ...

In heterosexual partnerships, women contribute more to housework and childcare than their male partners, even if both work ...

Of household income or of GDP per capita? Or even of mortality rates themselves, across different groups? Inequality among whom: should it be viewed at the level of individuals? Households? Countries?