Wealth-based inequality in underweight among Scheduled Tribe women in India: a regional analysis by Anshika Singh, Aditya Singh, Mahashweta Chakrabarty, Shivani Singh, Pooja Tripathi

“…Methods The study analysed data from the fourth and fifth rounds of the National Family Health Survey, covering 113,549 and 121,326 non-pregnant ST women aged 15–49, respectively. Wealth-based inequality in underweight was assessed using the Erreygers normalized concentration index (ECI), while predicted probabilities of underweight, adjusted for relevant variables, were calculated using binary logistic regression. …”
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Portfolio Composition and Home Ownership Importance for the Wealth Distribution in Europe by Karolis Bielskis

“…I conclude the paper with some stylized facts showing the relationship between home ownership, the share of portfolio in housing assets and wealth inequality between countries. The stylized facts provide evidence that household portfolios significantly concentrated in housing assets during the analyzed decade. …”
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Ownership concentration and investment performance of Austrian listed companies by Nouman Afgan, Muhammad Zubair Mumtaz, Robert M. Kunst

“… We apply panel estimation techniques to full population of Austrian corporations from 2007-2020 in order to analyze the impact of ownership concentration on performance. Return on investment (ROI) is lower than cost of capital, which insinuates that managers invest beyond optimal investment level instead of maximizing shareholders’ wealth. …”
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Socio-economic inequalities in minimum dietary diversity among Ethiopian children aged 6–23 months: a decomposition analysis by Nigusu Worku, Amare Mesfin Workie, Lamrot Yohannes, Mihret Getnet, Mihret Getnet, Wubshet Debebe Negash, Wubshet Debebe Negash, Adina Yeshambel Belay, Lakew Asmare, Hiwot Tadesse Alemu, Demiss Mulatu Geberu, Melak Jejaw, Kaleb Assegid Demissie, Misganaw Guadie Tiruneh, Asebe Hagos

“…Wealth and educational status show positive CIX values for inequality, as exhibited by the concentration curve under the equality line. …”
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Moderating effect of economic instability in the relationship between concentration of control and market value: empirical evidence in Latin America by Dante Baiardo C. Cavalcante Viana Junior, Daniel Ferreira Caixe, Vera Maria Rodrigues Ponte

“…Thus, this study provides empirical evidence that times of economic instability encourage controlling shareholders to act even more strongly in their own interests, which may result in the expropriation of the wealth of smaller shareholders.…”
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Educational inequalities in the prevalence of vision impairment among older adults in India: A decomposition analysis by Rakesh Chandra, Satyam Kumar Rai, Aditya Singh

“…We analyzed the prevalence of VI (distance and near vision impairment) among older adults. Using concentration curves we compared VI inequality along the axes of wealth and education. …”
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Socioeconomic and Geographical Inequities in Burden and Treatment seeking Behavior for Hypertension among Women in the Reproductive Age (15–45 years) Group in India: Findings from... by Karthiga Vijayakumar, Sivaranjini Kannusamy, Yuvaraj Krishnamoorthy, Kavita Vasudevan, Pruthu Thekkur, Sonu Goel, Soumya Swaroop Meshram

“…One-third (32%) of the hypertensive population received treatment and only 28% of the women had controlled blood pressure. Wealth and education-based inequalities were more in high wealth index. …”
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Health Inequalities in Under-Five Mortality: An Assessment of Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India by Sarvesh Kumar, Damodar Sahu, Amit Mehto, Ravendra Kumar Sharma

“…Under-five mortality rates (U5MR) were calculated for associated background characteristics by using the life table method. Wealth inequality was assessed separately for all EAG states by calculating measures of concentration index (CI). …”
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Trends and socioeconomic inequalities of recommended antenatal care services utilization in Ethiopia: A decomposition analysis using Ethiopian nationwide Demographic Health Surveys... by Yawkal Tsega, Abel Endawkie, Gebeyehu Tsega, Asnakew Molla Mekonen, Yeshimebet Ali Dawed, Chad Stecher

“…Wealth status of the households contributed for almost two-thirds (66.58%) of the observed disparity in recommended ANC service utilization across wealth categories.…”
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Julie Lazes, Conflictualité, distribution et instabilité macroéconomique. Comportements rentiers et modes de régulation en Argentine by Julie Lazes

“…Even though this feature is inherent to capitalism, it takes an important dimension in a society that has been founded on a high concentration of wealth and, most particularly, in the concentration of land ownership.…”
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Coupling between topological edge state and defect mode-based biosensor using phononic crystal by Zaky A. Zaky, M. Al-Dossari, Ahmed S. Hendy, Yassine Bouazzi, Attia Boudjemline, Arafa H. Aly

“…Abstract A wealth of details regarding an individual’s state of health, like a person’s respiratory and metabolic functioning, can be studied by analyzing the volatile molecules and atoms in human exhaled breath. …”
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Structure de propriété et partage de la valeur ajoutée : application aux entreprises françaises non financières du SBF120 by Moufida Labadi, Mehdi Nekhili

“…The extent of layoffs improves shareholders’ value-added and reduces the part distributed to employees in companies with higher ownership concentration. Ownership structure thus affects the balance of power between employees and shareholders.…”
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Effect of SiC Particle Incorporated Dielectric Medium on Electrical Discharge Machining Behavior of AA6061/B4Cp/SiCp AMCs by Johny Khajuria, N. Nagabhooshanam, Pankaj Sharma, Atul Kumar, Santosh Kumar Sahu, Peyyala Sree Devi, Kuma Gowwomsa Erko

“…In this work, it was observed that using motor oil as the dielectric fluid when producing AA6061/SiCp/B4Cp hybrid composites provided wealth from waste. In these studies, modifications in silicon carbide (SiC) concentration, electrode (copper and brass), current, pulse time, and reinforcing weight percentage were tested. …”
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Construction of the cancer patients’ database based on the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) datasets for cancer epidemiology research by Jinyoung Moon, Yongseok Mun

“…The US NHANES provides a wealth of critical data on environmental toxicant exposures. …”
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Level of and trends in women’s empowerment inequalities in antenatal care services in Ethiopia: further analysis of the Ethiopia demographic and health surveys, 2000-16 by Gebretsadik Shibre, Wubegzier Mekonnen, Damen Haile Mariam

“…However, the confidence intervals suggest mixed findings. The concentration indices showed that disparities mostly increased in 2016 and the change was underpinned by the changes in the inequalities of various factors and sensitivities of antenatal care services with respect to these variables, such as wealth, maternal education, media exposure, place of residence, and women’s empowerment itself. …”
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Financialized growth regime and capital accumulation in Brazil: geopolitical and institutional factors of the recent collapse and beyond by Miguel Bruno, Denise Gentil

“…This is the result of the strong external demand for Brazilian commodities, which refutes the interpretations that considered it a typical finance-led growth or, in a surprisingly optimistic perspective for a country marked by a high concentration of income and stock of wealth, a wage-led growth regime.…”
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Flood Evacuation in Informal Settlements: Application of an Agent-Based Model to Kibera Using Open Data by Olivia Butters, Richard J. Dawson

“…To date, these have only been applied in locations with a wealth of data, relying upon bespoke local or national datasets. …”
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Racial/Ethnic inequality & contemporary disparities in mortgage lending. by Meghan M O'Neil, Vincent J Roscigno

“…Research over the past two decades has noted significant racial/ethnic wealth inequalities-inequalities with important implications for life chances and institutional access. …”
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Socioeconomic and health-related inequalities in major depressive symptoms among older adults: a Wagstaff’s decomposition analysis of data from the LASI baseline survey, 2017–2018... by Manish Kumar, Shobhit Srivastava, T. Muhammad, Anjali Elsa Skariah

“…About 38.4% of the socioeconomic and health-related inequality was explained by the wealth quintile for major depression among older adults. …”
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Evaluation for an Open Society: Then and Now by Robert Picciotto

“…Economic and social dysfunctions have led to extraordinary concentration of wealth and privilege.  Ominous environmental threats loom. …”
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