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[inequality] Editorial notes and suggestions

Open mmcky opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

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)
  • [x] review and add appropraite labels to figures x and y axis for figures
  • [x] 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

  • [x] 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.

mmcky avatar Feb 20 '24 05:02 mmcky

@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.

mmcky avatar Feb 22 '24 22:02 mmcky

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 :)

pgrosser1 avatar Feb 23 '24 01:02 pgrosser1