inequality

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A UC Berkeley-led study revealed that disparities in the share of Black and Latino students admitted to America's elite colleges and universities have endured and even widened over the last 40 years. The study, "Shifting Tides: The Evolution of Racial Inequality in Higher Education from the 1980s through the 2010s," was…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Behind the relatively stable income inequality in the Netherlands, big changes have been happening. Income inequality has increased over the past 40 years, but less sharply because women in lower income groups have begun working more. In contrast, men's income has increased very little over the past 40 years. This is…

While AI has the potential to replace certain jobs, the IMF suggests that AI is likely to complement human work. Advanced economies are anticipated to see around 60% of jobs affected, a higher proportion compared to emerging and low-income countries…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the past quarter-century, the idea has taken hold among politicians across the spectrum that one of the best ways to address inequality is to give local communities the resources to do the work themselves. Provide them with funding, and they can spend it on the projects that their communities really need. But our research has shown that while many of these projects can be very positive,…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain New research by School of Economics Associate Professor Shatakshee Dhongde combines multidimensional inequality measurements to better understand the disparity in the United States. Her paper, published with co-authors Prasanta K. Pattanaik, a faculty member at the University of California Riverside, and Yongsheng Xu, a faculty…

Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder Several years ago, Ajume Wingo was riding a bus in his home country of Cameroon when the vehicle made an unexpected stop. From his seat, the CU Boulder associate professor of philosophy watched as a group of women began shouting at a young girl who looked to be between 11 and 13 years old. "I heard them say…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain According to an essay published in Educational Researcher, a decade of colorblind school discipline policy reforms have not disproportionally benefited Black students who remain the most often disciplined in schools and miss valuable classroom learning time. Given that fact, the authors say interventions directly targeting antiblackness in school policies and practices are needed.…

At some point in your life, you could have about a one in five chance of developing an autoimmune disease. The odds are greater if you are a woman, you have a genetic predisposition to autoimmunity, or you are exposed to certain pollutants. These diseases include more than 100 lifelong and costly illnesses such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus and multiple sclerosis. They are often difficult to diagnose and currently impossible to cure.The effects of autoimmune disease are devastating. As a person’s own…

Bivariate relationships between ∆WageGap and ∆PopulationDensity across MSAs.Notes: N = 229. Data come from the 2000 Decennial Census and 2014-2018 ACS (Manson et al., Citation2021; Ruggles et al., Citation2021). AAPI = Asian American and Pacific Islander. r = correlation coefficient. Correlations are weighted by 1 divided by the (heteroskedasticity robust) variance of ∆WageGap. Circle sizes correspond to the size of the weights. Rug plots on the y-axis…

The conversation around diabetes has predominantly revolved around an energy surplus: if a person takes in more energy than they expend, over time, they may become obese and develop its associated metabolic disorders, such as type 2 diabetes. Most treatments approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration aim to limit calorie intake or suppress the appetite. Researchers have, however, rarely discussed the effect of malnutrition on insulin. In recent decades, a more nuanced picture of diabetes has emerged that shows the…