Life Expectancy vs. Income in the United States. Source: Harvard's The Equality of Opportunity Project.

The Mathematics of Inequality: A Transdisciplinary Study of the Social, Economic, and Demographic Dimensions of Inequality

Funding Source: Guggenheim Foundation – Research on social inequality is naturally discipline-based: inequality researchers tend to focus on the inequality types of most interest to their discipline (e.g., income inequality to economics, life span inequality to demography). This has the … Continue reading The Mathematics of Inequality: A Transdisciplinary Study of the Social, Economic, and Demographic Dimensions of Inequality