Wealth distribution has always been an important issue in our economic and social life, since it affects the harmony and stabilization of the society. Under the background of widely used financial tools to raise leverage these years, we studied the leverage effect on wealth distribution of a population in a controllable laboratory market in which we have conducted several human experiments, and...

This paper calculates the distribution of an adjusted measure of income that deducts damages due to exposure to air pollution from reported market income in the United States from 2011 to 2014. The Gini coefficient for this measure of adjusted income is 0.682 in 2011, as compared to 0.482 for market income. By 2014, we estimate that the Gini for adjusted income fell to 0.646, while the market i...

Abbreviations: API, application program interface; C Gini coefficient; EMD, earth mover's distance; GINI, Positioning System; JSD, Jensen-Shannon divergence; KLD LA, Los Angeles; LBSN, location-based social network; MR New Orleans; NYC, New York City; POI, point(s) of intere ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (G. Mc 1 We use the term point of interest here to k...

Problem statement: In this study, the inequality of apnea rates during sleep was investigated. Approach: This study used a database comprising 13 patients with apnea problems. The data was extracted from the MIT-BIH database. The Lorenz curve and Gini index were used to determine the inequality of apnea rates. In order to test for cluster, random or regular patterns of apnea, an index of runs w...

Income inequality typically declines with the length of time taken into account for measurement. This note derives an exact analytical relationship between the accounting period and inequality as measured by the Gini index. The relationship is similar to the decomposition of the coefficient of variation. The methodology is illustrated with panel data on urban wages from Mexico. It is found that...