South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country's per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a ...

Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce ...

House-size data from ancient sites show that economic inequality is historically variable and shaped by human choices, not ...

By applying the Gini coefficient—a standard measure of inequality—to ancient house sizes, researchers discovered that early farming villages were relatively egalitarian. However, as settlements became ...

A common measure used in modern societies is the Gini coefficient, a number between 0 and 1 where 0 represents perfect equality (everyone has the same wealth) and 1 perfect inequality (with one ...

the researchers used the variable distributions of house sizes at more than 1000 settlements to calculate a Gini coefficient for each site conducted statistical analyses in which they examined the ...

the researchers used the variable distributions of house sizes at more than 1,000 settlements to calculate a Gini coefficient for each site and conducted statistical analyses in which they ...

This Special Feature (SF) on Economic Inequality represents a collective effort to accelerate archaeological assessment of economic inequality. The associated papers use the rich archaeological record ...

Specifically, based on geographical location, this study divides the cities into sub-samples of northern Sichuan, eastern Sichuan, western Sichuan and southern Sichuan, analyzes the gap within and ...

Created by Italian statistician Corrado Gini in 1912, the Gini index (also known as the Gini coefficient or Gini ratio) gauges inequality by showing how income or wealth is distributed. Ranging from ...