1. A Pew Research Center analysis in 2014 found that the wealth gap between upper-income people and the rest of America was the widest In 2013, the median net worth of the nation’s upper-income families was 6.6 times that of middle-income families, and nearly 70 times that of lower-income families. This is one way that inequality is measured.

Find another way the concept of inequality can be measured.

2. Say we want to test the following hypothesis:

"Democracies are more likely to sign international treaties with other democracies than they are with dictatorships."

If we want our hypothesis to be falsifiable would it matter whether we used Freedom House measures or PACL to measure democracy? If so, why or why not?.

3. Choose two of the following concepts and provide an answer to the following question in a paragraph.

a) Casualties of War

- How many Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the most recent military conflict that began on March 9. 2003?

b) Healthcare Spending

- How much did the U.S. Federal government spend on healthcare in 2005? How much did it spend in 2015?

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1 Primarily there is no one particular way of defining and measuring economic inequality Fry Kochhar 2014 This challenge is especially attributed to the argument by economists such as Arthur Kennickel... View the full answer