Appraising cross-national income inequality databases: An introduction

Malapportionment and Income Inequality: A Cross-National Analysis

with level of PT is the average gap between the first and second most popular parties. Regardless of electoral system, which has little association with it, this is the party system variable that is most closely linked with level of PT. It is this form of party system competitiveness that best fosters PT. In terms of elite strategy, grand coalitions very obviously provide the most effective way...

State income inequality, household income, and maternal mental and physical health: cross sectional national survey.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of state income inequality and individual household income with the mental and physical health of women with young children. DESIGN Cross sectional study. Individual level data (outcomes, income, and other sociodemographic covariates) from a 1991 follow up survey of a birth cohort established in 1988. State level income inequality calculated from the incom...

An introduction to reading and appraising qualitative research.

The number of qualitative research articles published in educational journals has increased substantially over the past number of years. Qualitative studies have contributed to our understanding of important educational issues, such as minority students’ reasons for following or abandoning teacher’s recommendations and student’s reasons for departing or persisting in school. Nonetheless, educat...

Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Reading and Appraising Qualitative Research

Income Inequality, Income, and Internet Searches for Status Goods: A Cross-National Study of the Association Between Inequality and Well-Being

Is there a positive association between a nation's income inequality and concerns with status competition within that nation? Here we use Google Correlate and Google Trends to examine frequency of internet search terms and find that people in countries in which income inequality is high search relatively more frequently for positional brand names such as Prada, Louis Vuitton, or Chanel. This te...