People tend to associate with others who are in a similar financial position, making them underestimate the true levels on inequality.
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While most heterosexual couples are dual-earners, super rich couples continue to have gender-traditional arrangements in which the man is the sole breadwinner.
From Tupac to Jay-Z, many a rap artist has set pen to paper to pay homage to the women who gave them birth.
Squandering all that money is easier than it seems.
Economic growth of countries needs many ingredients. Getting the recipe just right is important.
The change point at which the happiness of most Australians no longer strongly depends on income has almost doubled from A$43,000 to A$74,000.
Elite universities have been giving special preference to children of prior graduates for more than a century. Has the time come for that practice to stop? A sociologist weighs in.
Fair global agreements, home-grown vaccines and sharing extra doses with poorer nations are all needed if we’re to ever emerge from this pandemic.
We find low taxes on the rich bring economies little benefit. This suggests there is a strong economic case for raising taxes on the rich to help repair public finances following the pandemic.
London is an alpha city – home to 100 billionaires. But does wealth bring social costs?
Rich Indian women are anxious about being recognised as members of an international elite.
Several companies are trying to develop life extension methods that could enable some people to live far longer. There are some ethical dilemmas.
Income inequality, the most common way to measure the gap between the rich and the poor, only tells part of the story. Wealth inequality tells the rest.
Census data shows there is income inequality between, but also within, regions of Australia.
The wealthy evade taxes and are less likely to donate to charity, but does this mean they’re more selfish than everyone else? New research suggests not.
Cars, clothes, diamonds and jets: it’s time we addressed just how much the wealthy are hurting the planet.
Mixed-income housing has been promoted as a panacea to concentrated poverty and crime. But recent research raises some red flags.
Rich people are more likely to engage in unethical activity, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of California…
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