Relative income deprivation (RID) is a known risk factor for poor health. Previous research
has proposed several measures to assess RID, eg, Income Rank and the Yitzhaki Index …

We present a new index for measuring income inequality in networks. The index is based on
income comparisons made by the members of a network who are linked with each other by …

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public
health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this …

This paper investigates the role of subjective financial wellbeing (FWB) in international
migration. A large body of literature established that higher relative income deprivation …

What measure of relative deprivation best predicts health? While numerous indices of
relative deprivation exist, few studies have compared how well different measures account …

Combining a standard measure of concern about low relative wealth and a standard
measure of relative risk aversion leads to a novel explanation of variation in risk-taking …

The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on
income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from social …

We show that a social planner who seeks to allocate a given sum in order to reduce
efficiently the social stress of a population, as measured by the aggregate relative …

The social stress experienced by an individual from having a low relative income or from
having a low income-based rank is a derivative of the individual's location in social space …

The merger of populations expands the comparison space of incomes. As a result,
measures of the income-based social stress and of the income inequality of the constituent …