The spread of inequality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Rogers, Deborah S ^a,b   Deshpande, Omkar ^c   Feldman, Marcus W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL VALUE; DEMOGRAPHY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MORTALITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODEL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOCIOECONOMIC INEQUALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENT; MIGRATION; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DEMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 80053042704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024683     Document Type: Article

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