Latest Research
The most up to date research on the costs of economic inequality.
Community life and social relations
Inequality is a social divider. It reduces rates of trust and encourages a ‘us vs. them’ mentality, thus, breaking down social ties and cohesion.
Growing Apart, Losing Trust? The Impact of Inequality on Social Capital
Income Inequality, Life Satisfaction Inequality and Trust: A Cross Country Panel Analysis
Happiness, social cohesion and income inequalities in Britain and Japan
Wealth and the Inflated Self: Class, Entitlement, and Narcissism
Mental health and drug use
The negative effects of inequality on mental health and drug use have been widely proven, both with potentially detrimental, long-lasting effects of individuals’ lives. Illegal drugs use is more common in less equal societies.
Reducing health inequalities in mental illness
UN World Drug Report 2019: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Physical health and life expectancy
Physical health is poorer and life expectancy, including for infants, is shorter in countries with bigger income differences between the rich and the poor.
Health Profile for England 2017
Public Health Outcomes Framework - Health Equity Report
Public Health Matters Blog - Life Expectancy
Obesity: wider income gaps, wider waists
Obesity rates are significantly higher in more unequal societies. The US, for example, has one of highest rates of inequality and also obesity, at almost 40%.
Educational performance
Educational scores are closely linked to income inequality.
An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK
State of the Nation 2013: social mobility and child poverty in Great Britain
Inequality in Early Childhood Education and Care: What Do We Know?
Ten Hypotheses about Socioeconomic Gradients and Community Differences in Children’s Developmental
The relationship between income inequality and inequality in schooling
Education and Income Inequality: New Evidence From Cross‐Country Data
The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality: Educaiton and Inequality
Teenage births: recycling deprivation
Women of a lower socioeconomic status are more likely to give birth as a teenager in more unequal places.
Adolescent Birth Rates, Total Homicides, and Income Inequality In Rich Countries
Why is the Teen Birth Rate in the United States So High and Why Does It Matter?
Income inequality and early non-marital childbearing
Violence: gaining respect
The most well-established cause of high levels of violence is the scale of economic inequality.
Why is violence more common where inequality is greater?
Income Inequality and Crime: A Review and Explanation of the Time–series Evidence
Income inequality, trust and homicide in 33 countries
Income Inequality and School Bullying: Multilevel Study of Adolescents in 37 Countries
School bullying, homicide and income inequality: a cross-national pooled time series analysis
Imprisonment and punishment
Income inequality is linked to higher prisoner rates and harsher punishments.
Crime, Punishment, and American Inequality
The relationship between welfare spending and imprisonment
Inequality and Punishment: A Turning Point for Mass Incarceration?
Explaining imprisonment in Europe
Social mobility: unequal opportunities
Intergenerational mobility is harshly affected by inequality and income differences lock societies' social structures.
How Much Can We Learn From International Comparisons Of Intergenerational Mobility?
Income Inequality, Social Mobility, and the Decision to Drop Out of High School
Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key?
Inequality from generation to generation: the United States in Comparison
A Broken Social Elevator? How to Promote Social Mobility
House of Commons Library: Inequality and Social Mobility
House of Commons Library: Social Mobility Index by Constituency SMIC
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