Converging lines of inquiry from across the social and biological sciences target the adult sex ratio (ASR; the proportion of males in the adult population) as a fundamental population-level determinant of behavior. The ASR, which indicates the relative number of potential mates to competitors in ...
The Covid-19 pandemic represents a unique case where inequality may not simply represent a temporary and unwanted consequence of progress but may actually undo our efforts to defeat the virus. The disease is highly infectious, and transmission leads to new variants through mutation, which may be ...
Cost of Living Economic Inequality Gross Domestic Product Scarcity Standard of Living Unemployment Start today. Try it now Economics 102: Macroeconomics 16chapters |137lessons|14flashcard sets Ch 1.Scarcity, Choice, and the Production Possibilities... ...
exertional rhabdomyolysis (much more common in the era of CrossFit), and weirdly it’s possible that “deep tissue” massage is also causing a lot of rhabdo inequality/injustice/poverty, the great predictors of chronic stress in humans, are strong causes of disease and all-cause mortality —...
Losses of wealth and speed of recovery also varied considerably by socioeconomic class prior to the downturn, with the wealthiest groups suffering the least (in percentage terms) and recovering the soonest. For such reasons, it is generally agreed that the Great Recession worsened inequality of wea...
The results reveal that factors such as income inequality and level of economic freedom cause negative gap between development and GDP; the size of shadow economy has positive impact on deviation of HDI from GDP levels, while certain sociocultural factors such as higher fertility rates and alcohol...
The Great Depression was the result of a multitude of factors, each compounding the severity of the economic decline. One primary cause was the stock market crash of October 1929, which wiped out thousands of investors and eroded public confidence. However, the crash was just the tipping point...
Third, how do the drivers of spatial carbon inequality perform at the sectoral level? The above question led us to combine the analysis of the drivers of spatial carbon inequality with a regional classification analysis based on per capita GDP and per capita carbon emissions. Based on this ...
Poverty is considered to be a result of market failure. When arecessionhits, the poverty rate increases because employees lose their jobs or lose working hours, which results in no income or less income. Inequality, which is a component of market failure, can eventually lead to poverty when w...
making equity-efficiency tradeoffs fairly common. There are arguments that economic gain doesn’t necessarily have to come at the expense of greater inequality. However, in most capitalist societies, that is precisely what happens.