Discover what income inequality is, its primary causes, and how it's measured. Learn about its impact on society and explore ways to address this growing issue.

Inequality in education is a defining challenge of our time. Around the world, students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds are far more likely to underperform in school than are students ...

To understand modern racial inequalities, historical context is crucial. That's according to new research from Penn sociologist Regina Baker published in the American Journal of Sociology. Baker found ...

In September 2015, 193 member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and committed themselves to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs are ...

The inequality studies minor at Duke, a collaboration between the Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity and the Department of History, aims to offer new ways for undergraduates to research and ...

Growing up in a society with a wide gap between the rich and the poor is linked to higher rates of depressive symptoms later ...

This paper develops a general equilibrium lifecycle model to explore the welfare and inequality implications of different ways to return carbon tax revenue back to households. We find that the welfare ...

It’s no secret that wealth inequality is on the rise both in the U.S. and across the globe. The growing gap between the rich and poor has serious consequences — and not just for human societies, ...

Yong Jin Park, RSM Visiting Scholar, analyzes the digital inequality in AI. "This study focuses on digital divide in the context of access, use, and perceptual understanding of digital assistants. We ...

In the second half of the year 2021, there was a rejuvenation of the age-old debate of India vs Bharat, through comedian Vir Das’ Two India, at his performance in Kennedy Centre, Washington DC. This ...