Trust involves a willingness to accept vulnerability, comprised of the risk of being worse off than by not trusting, the risk of being worse off than the trusted party (disadvantageous inequality), and the risk of being betrayed by the trusted party. We examine how people’s status, focusing on sex, race, age and religion, affects their willingness to accept these three risks. We experimentally ...

In this paper, I empirically test the notion that the degree of inclusion/exclusion of social welfare policies can have important feedback effects on political participation of poor citizens. I conduct a comparative analysis of the 50 US states, using the uptake (or coverage rate) of the Food Stamp program as an indicator of relative inclusiveness. If the inclusiveness of the program “sends a m...

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the level of ecomomic (income or expenditure) inequality in khorasan province has been unknown. this paper tries to estimate and compare the trends of expenditure (income) inequality in khorasan province and the whole iran during 1971-2001 in two categories of urban and rural regions. for this purpose, inequality indices (gini coefficient and income deciles) were estimated parametrically. the r...

The growing access to the Internet, devices, and social media has revolutionized communication processes democratized information content creation. However, several researchers have shown that although Internet is readily available, virtual world a mirror of society in which we live where digital inequity exists. Several studies present evidence status does not affect presence network users, bu...

We analyse the trends in inequality mortality across poverty groups at different ages over period 1996–2016 Netherlands. In addition, we examine whether these are related to unequal changes avoidable mortality, separated by preventable and treatable causes of death. find that while inequalities have decreased up 65, increased for oldest age groups. The decline younger can, a large extent, be ex...