“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 ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

The United States has the highest income gap in the developed world, and it's affecting how kids do in school, new research suggests. A new study reports that 10-year-olds' scores on standardized math ...

In this paper we continue our investigation of entropy comparisons with emphasis on multivariate distributions. For multiparameter cases of the multinomial and negative multinomial distributions we ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We consider an infinite particle system, the simple exclusion process, which was introduced in the 1970 paper "Interaction of Markov Processes ...

According to the World Happiness Report 2016 Update, happiness inequality is on the rise. What is happiness inequality? It’s the psychological parallel to income inequality: how much individuals in a ...

Global inequality stems not just from what people have and don’t have—but what they're able to do with what they have. “The levels of inequality are horrendous," said Janet Fuentes, an activist from ...

This is a graduate-level course focused on techniques and models in modern discrete probability. Topics include: the first and second moment methods, Chernoff bounds and large deviations, martingales, ...