Paula Sergeant and Doris Hanappi present the Longitudinal Educational Achievements: Reducing Inequalities (LEARN) Project ...

An article by Stockholm University researchers was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The study relies on data for the entire Swedish population and ...

Local governments in developing countries are crucial for providing public services that promote human development and address challenges like extreme weather, unemployment and crumbling ...

However, our study shows that when people perceive that income inequality spills over into health and education disparities, they are less likely to accept it and more likely to support redistributive ...

A new study published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion provides detailed evidence that some evangelical church leaders use sermons to justify economic inequality, even when ...

Political commentators, academics and others have been wringing their hands over threats to democracy in recent years. A new study helps us better understand one of the possible driving forces behind ...

An article in the April edition of Nature Human Behavior argues that people are more concerned with economic unfairness than economic inequality, despite popular belief to the contrary. The study, ...

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