background: health inequalitymonitoring especially in health care financing field is very important. hence, this study tends to assess the inequality in household's capacity to pay and out-of-pocket health carepaymentsin tehran metropolis. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in 2013.thestudy population was selected by stratified cluster sampling, and they constitute the typical ho...

BACKGROUND One of the main challenges of healthcare systems of developing countries is health inequality. Health inequality means inequality in individuals' ability and proper functioning, resulting in inequality in social status and living conditions, which thwarts social interventions implemented by the government. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to determine and prioritize the social determina...

In this paper, we aim to study the interrelationship between social spending, economic growth, and income inequality in developing countries from year 1990 2013. We observed that all categories of spending produced a significant reduction inequality. Further, impact health education on growth is significant, protection insignificant. This indicates both can break trade-off equity efficiency, is...

We study the relationship between inequality and inter-groups conflicts (riots), focussing on social inequality. Disadvantaged societal groups experience discrimination and thus have limited access to some social and labour resources like education or employment. First, we experimentally investigate whether social inequality is a driving force of inter-group conflicts. Second, we investigate th...

† I would like to acknowledge and thank Samuel Bowles who was both the motivator and a virtual co author of this paper. James Heintz provided valuable editorial assistance I would also like to thank the MacArthur Foundations Network on Inequality and Economic Performance for financial assistance.

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, “born” urban residents, and “acquired” urban residents who once changed their hukou identity from rural to urban. We focus on how the horizontal inequality—income disparity between migrants and...

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, “born” urban residents, and “acquired” urban residents who once changed their hukou identity from rural to urban. We focus on how the horizontal inequality—income disparity between migrants and...

In this paper, we consider and study a class of vector variational-like inequalities in Banach space without any generalized monotonicity by exploiting vector version of minimax inequality and obtain the existence results of solutions to the class of vector variational-like inequalities. The results presented here are different from [1, 5, 11], and extend and generalize the corresponding result...

In this paper the problems of controller design for a class of nonlinear pendulum-like control system with multiple equilibria guaranteeing dichotomy and gradient-like property of the closed-loop systems are investigated. By applying KYP-lemma and some results of positive real control the method of controller design based on linear matrix inequality is proposed. ? 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights ...