Biases contained within historical datasets makes addressing what underpins automated decisions difficult – defining what is ...

Health disparities across racial and ethnic groups persist in Canada. But how the country can effectively address them hinges ...

The state's new flat tax structure raises Ohio's inequality measure while delivering the biggest savings to top earners, ...

Regions with greater socioeconomic inequalities are more affected by cold weather, whereas areas with higher levels of wealth and urbanization are at greater risk during heat waves and lower risk ...

Health disparities across racial and ethnic groups persist in Canada. But how the country can effectively address them hinges upon how it can better study these differences. In a recent paper I ...

In modern social research, sociological questions are increasingly being answered with the help of experiments; for example, whether employers discriminate in personnel selection, whether immigrants ...

Gender inequality affects women’s economic and social outcomes in almost every domain. It is visible in pay, employment and earning gaps, patterns of occupational segregation, and the limited presence ...

Entrepreneur Nick Hanauer and scholar Eric Beinhocker advocate "market humanism" as a framework for reforming capitalism.

A drop in healthy life expectancy is explained through many causes: obesity, alcohol, drugs, suicide, chronic disease, poverty and widening inequality. But one of the most powerful causes sits atop ...

The resilience of South Africans is always being stress-tested by the country’s high rates of trauma due to poverty, ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of Europe's biggest health challenges, according to new data from the European ...

Economic inequality is leaving a deep mark on children’s health, learning and future opportunities – with effects felt well ...