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Narrative Stories
Economics (and, by extension, finance) has focused too much on quantitative methods and forgotten something important in the process: We humans have evolved to be storytellers. The stories we tell each other bind us together as families, communities, nations, and religions. These narratives define what it means to be a mother, a German, or a…
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Inequality Measurement
An inequality measure is often a function that ascribes a value to a specific distribution of income in a way that allows direct and objective comparisons across different distributions. To do this, inequality measures should have specific properties and behave in a certain way given certain events. For example, moving $1 from a richer person…
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Social Class and Health Inequality
What would happen if people were in the same social class? Using General Social Survey data (Canadian at work and home) 2016, I conducted a study to find the answer to this question. Is there any link between social class and health inequality? It is better to take a look at some variables before proceeding.…
SAFAVI, M 