Greater income inequality and worries about social standing may encourage both women and men to base more of their personal worth on appearance, according to two experiments published in the Journal ...

However, our study shows that when people perceive that income inequality spills over into health and education disparities, they are less likely to accept it and more likely to support redistributive ...

A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that economic inequality on a social level cannot be ...

The level of economic inequality in the city of Santiago in Brazil is evident along the border of a high-density, low-income favela neighborhood next to high-rise ...

Early morning magenta light illuminates clouds and the Moulton Barn on Mormon Row at the foot of the Grand Tetons near Jackson, Wyoming. Teton County, home to the affluent and famous Jackson Hole, has ...

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter where Rogé Karma investigates the mysteries of a complicated economy. That’s exactly the claim that Gerald Auten and ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. In its first 250 years, the U.S.

The U.S. economy is more dependent than ever on the lavish spending of the wealthiest, The Wall Street Journal recently reported. The top 10% of earners (households making $250,000 per year or more) ...

Concerns about income inequality have become such a natural part of the national conversation that I worry we’ve stopped thinking about them in a serious, analytical way. Are popular views of the ...

A global study led by a researcher at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Scientific Reports(link is external and opens in a new window) finds that ...