Background: In recent years, there has been growing interest in “moving beyond the
individual” to measure area-level racism as a social determinant of health. Much of this work …

In this ecological study, we examined the associations between state-level income
inequality and pregnancy-related mortality among non-Hispanic (NH) black and NH white …

In this article, we study how social expenditure is related to poverty, income inequality and
GDP growth. Our main contribution is to disentangle these relationships by the following …

Past studies have mostly focused on investigating actual economic inequality with less work
devoted to understanding perceived economic inequality and its antecedents. However …

Much research found that economic inequality—the dispersion of incomes distribution
among individuals in a society—affects subjective well‐being (SWB). As a meta‐analysis …

Policy Points Cultural racism—or the widespread values that privilege and protect
Whiteness and White social and economic power—permeates all levels of society, uplifts …

Prior correlational research demonstrated that in a society with high income inequality,
people are more likely to seek high status. The present study aimed to establish a causal …

Researchers increasingly use aggregated search data from Google Trends to study a wide
range of phenomena. Although this new data source possesses some important practical …

Recent protests by athletes focused on raising awareness of social issues and injustices,
such as the Black Lives Matter protests led by Colin Kaepernick of the National Football …

Progress toward racial equality over the course of US history has not been linear, and
reductions in racial inequalities have historically been met with racist backlash. In the current …