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mmcky opened this issue Feb 20, 2024 · 2 comments
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[inequality] Editorial notes and suggestions #380

mmcky opened this issue Feb 20, 2024 · 2 comments
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mmcky commented Feb 20, 2024

The following suggestions were made in today's reading group discussion

Suggestions for improvements

  • In section 5.1.1 explanation of what inequality is and why we care about it? Perhaps we could add a graph comparing inequality with happiness? (@pgrosser1 to share link to data on reported happiness)
  • review and add appropraite labels to figures x and y axis for figures
  • ensure figures are captioned and numbered using mystnb metadata
  • We could clarify in a comment that in Fig 5.2 income is a flow and wealth is a stock

Ideas for Additions

  • add some more Lorenz curve plots (comparing between countries)
  • add Lorenz Curve plots of two ends of a long time period (within country) to see how it is evolving over time
  • Compare West (US, UK) with Scandinavia (more social oriented policies) over the same period (let the data talk) -- while not drawing concrete conclusions but possibilities.

@Jiarui-ZH this is captured from some of my notes. Please edit with any further suggestions you made during the reading group.

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mmcky commented Feb 22, 2024

@pgrosser1 when you get the chance would you mind sending me a link to the happiness dataset you mentioned. I can then try and integrate it into my current review of the inequality lecture. Thanks.

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pgrosser1 commented Feb 23, 2024

I've just added the data into the main discussion thread, but I'll just put a link to it here as well
Happiness_Gini_allcountries.xlsx
I've linked the data sources in the thread :)

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