A unique analysis of district-level data reveals why inequality is so destructive to the home consumption welfare of people living below the poverty line, especially during times of significant ...

“Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction. In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

File - A worker counts money at a grocery store in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Nov. 21, 2023. Prices have surged so dramatically that the government has multiplied the size of its biggest banknote in ...

The team reviewed over 10,000 abstracts from ten international databases covering psychology, sociology, economics, epidemiology, and public health. After a rigorous selection process, 168 studies ...

According the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as of the second quarter of 2024, the top 10% of households controlled 67% of total wealth, averaging $6.9 million per household. In stark contrast, ...

Rising oil prices and the fallout of the Iran war are worsening the economic divide, experts say.

If you’ve listened to public radio, tuned in to television news or scrolled through news feeds at any point in the last few years, you may have noted one commonplace term: “uncertainty.” Brancaccio: I ...

It was about five years ago that I first started noticing the name Eunji Kim on some interesting research. Best dissertation, best paper, best article — she seemed to be winning them all. In her ...