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Income inequality metrics, Distribution of wealth, Welfare economics, Poverty, Economics, Gini coefficient

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Measuring Disparate Outcomes of Content Recommendation Algorithms with Distributional Inequality Metrics

🔬 Research Summary by Tomo Lazovich (they/them) is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher on Twitter's ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team. [ Original paper by Tomo Lazovich…

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Measuring Disparate Outcomes of Content Recommendation Algorithms with Distributional Inequality Metrics

Measuring Disparate Outcomes of Content Recommendation Algorithms with Distributional Inequality Metrics

🔬 Research Summary by Tomo Lazovich (they/them) is a Senior Machine Learning Researcher on Twitter's ML Ethics, Transparency, and Accountability (META) team. [ Original paper by Tomo ...

Characterizing Wealth Inequality in Cryptocurrencies

Characterizing Wealth Inequality in Cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies often tend to maintain a publically accessible ledger of all transactions. This open nature of the transactional ledger allows us to gain macroeconomic insight into the USD ...

The Observer view on Britain’s scandalous wealth inequality

The Observer view on Britain’s scandalous wealth inequality

Official figures mask the growing income disparities dividing Britain

Income inequality raises risk for increased COVID-19 cases, deaths

Income inequality raises risk for increased COVID-19 cases, deaths

Elevated levels of income inequality increase a region's risk for experiencing more COVID-19 cases and deaths, according to an analysis published Monday by JAMA Network Open.

Seeking common prosperity from a global perspective

Seeking common prosperity from a global perspective

Since 1979, the market economy and global free competition has created unprecedented economic development and wealth creation.

Here's where the US falls on the 'Great Gatsby Curve,' a damning chart economists use to track inequality in every country

Here's where the US falls on the 'Great Gatsby Curve,' a damning chart economists use to track inequality in every country

Earning more than your parents might be harder if you live in countries with high inequality and a high dependency on what your parents earned.

The distributional effects of a carbon tax: The role of income inequality

The distributional effects of a carbon tax: The role of income inequality

The fact that a carbon tax is an environmentally and economically efficient instrument for reducing emissions is often highlighted, but the equity story is also of importance. This paper ...

Income Inequality

Income Inequality

How has the inequality between incomes changed over time? Is inequality rising or falling? How do levels of inequality vary across the world? See global and country-level data on income ...

Tanzania Ranked Third On List of Highest Wage Inequality

Tanzania Ranked Third On List of Highest Wage Inequality

Tanzania has been ranked third among 64 surveyed countries in the world with the highest level of wage inequality after scoring high in Gini estimates.

How do migration and remittances affect inequality? A case study of Mexico

How do migration and remittances affect inequality? A case study of Mexico

Remittances can lower inequality and may help mitigate some of the negative impact of shocks on the poorest