PNAS

Assessing grand narratives of economic inequality across time

Inequality is a central focus of contemporary scholarship. How did it reach its current extent? Is inequality a natural consequence of modernization, scalar growth, and/or Malthusian forces? Or, were ...
IEEE

Resilient Finite-Time Consensus of Variable-Order Fractional Multiagent Systems Under DoS Attacks

Abstract: This article aims to address the finite-time consensus issue for variable-order fractional multiagent systems (MASs) under denial of serve (DoS) attacks. First, the framework of node-based ...
The New York Times

Is the Urban Shift Toward Trump Really About Democratic Cities in Disarray?

Big cities have faced serious problems lately. But there’s little evidence those problems are what drove voters to the right in November. By Emily Badger and Alicia Parlapiano The presidential ...
IEEE

Variable Sample-Size Forward-Backward-Forward Algorithm for Two-Stage Stochastic Variational Inequality

Abstract: In this paper, paper, we propose a novel approach called the variable sample-size forward-backward-forward algorithm to address the two-stage stochastic variational inequality. A key ...
Forbes

What BANI Really Means (And How It Corrects Your World View)

Over the years, a variety of terms has been used to describe people’s difficulties grasping and controlling the world around them. There was dynamic, high-velocity, disruptive, turbulent and so on.
Commonwealth Fund

Disparities in the Use of New Diabetes Medications: Widening Treatment Inequality by Race and Insurance Coverage

Substantial and persistent disparities in health outcomes exist among people with diabetes by race, ethnicity, income, occupation, and other measures of socioeconomic status. 1 These disparities are ...
qualitysafety.bmj

Socioeconomic deprivation and ethnicity inequalities in disruption to NHS hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national observational study

Correspondence to Samantha Burn, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Innovation, Imperial College Business School, London, London, UK; sburn{at}g.harvard.edu Introduction Hospital admissions in ...
jech.bmj

Inequalities in children’s mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the UK Household Longitudinal Study

Background There are concerns that child mental health inequalities may have widened during the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigated whether child mental health inequalities changed in 2020/2021 ...
PNAS

A century of educational inequality in the United States

There has been widespread concern that the takeoff in income inequality in recent decades has had harmful social consequences. We provide evidence on this concern by assembling all available ...
gh.bmj

Socioeconomic inequalities in access to skilled birth attendance among urban and rural women in low-income and middle-income countries

Introduction Rapid urbanisation is one of the greatest challenges for Sustainable Development Goals. We compared socioeconomic inequalities in urban and rural women’s access to skilled birth ...
Frontiers

Measuring Geographic Inequalities: Dealing with Multiple Health Resources by Data Envelopment Analysis

The existence of geographic differences in health resources, health expenditures, the utilization of health services, and health outcomes have been documented by a lot of studies from various ...