where high population densities and low quality health services collide with high levels of harmful pollutant concentrations, impacting on residents’ health and well-being (Krzyzanowski et al.2014; Marlier et al.2016). In Mexico City, the annual...
Environmental inequalityAir pollutionQuantile analysisSocio-economic conditionsVulnerable groupsThe majority of studies on environmental justice show that groups with lower socio-economic status are more likely to face higher levels of air pollution. Most of these studies have assumed simple, linear ...
limiting the productive potential of its regions, exacerbating social exclusion (Andrés-Rosales et al.2018) and poverty (Cruz2013), and worsening inequality (Murphy and Welch,1993; Wolff2001). The underutilization of productive resources is one cause of wage inequality in Mexico. Some authors agree...
Reclaiming Territory: The Spatial Contours of Empire in US History Modern Territoriality, the Nation-State, and Nationalism Part III: Portals Disentangling the Colonial City: Spatial Separations and Entanglements inside Towns and across the Empire in Colonial Africa and Europe Hamburg, 8 Rothesoo...
inactivity was significant in the June-to-September and October-to-December waves and in the year-long model, and the confounders Hispanic, Mining or Agriculture, Public Transportation, Time to Work, Income Inequality, and Population Density were significant at different time periods of the model....
which will crowd out the labor productivity of talents in other domains (Albertini, 2013, Chen et al., 2022). 3) Social effects. Environmental pollution will cause income inequality and impact the gap between the rich and the poor (Downey et al., 2008, Hamilton, 2005), severely diminish ...
In general we observe a concave curve with a more or less strong curvature and the area between the diagonal and the actual curve is related to the Gini coefficient, an important indicator of inequality used in economics. In the Lorenz curve, the stronger the curvature the stronger the ...
Visuo-spatial reasoning tests, such as Raven's matrices, Cattell's culture-fair test, or various subtests of the Wechsler scales, are frequently used to estimate intelligence scores in the context of inter-racial comparisons. This has led to several high-profile works claiming that certain ethnic...
Spatial (in)justice is a critical dimension of youth inequality. However, it has traditionally been reduced to urban inequality. In addition to the public space of the city, new empirical research shows the relevance of other spaces in the lives of young people, such as the private space and...
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