Family conditions -- specifically, how similar one's social status and background is to one's parents' status -- may play a bigger role in determining how easily an individual can shift into a ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Crises often require economic consolidations that may unevenly affect different segments of the population. Some crisis ...

Despite advances in medical care, children under five continue to die in large numbers because of undernutrition, directly or indirectly, in low-income countries (LIC). The role played in such deaths ...

This article presents a novel wage inequality decomposition to analyze the impact of the gender wage gap on overall wage inequality. The decomposition determines the maximum relative wage between ...

Income inequality in society has been linked to structural changes in the brains of children who go on to experience poorer mental health. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

A new study published in Nature Mental Health has found that children growing up in states with higher income inequality show measurable differences in brain structure and function that may contribute ...

Gender inequality is accelerating young Japanese women's flight from rural areas to the cities, further depressing the country's already low birthrate. Japan has more elderly adults than any major ...