The reason why some people will pay $14,000 for a handbag just might come down to the difference between wealth and status. "Wealth is often private," wrote Jonah Berger, marketing professor at ...

For each site the experts calculated the Gini coefficient, a standard measure of wealth distribution. The gap between rich and poor in the United States is shown for reference.

Mortality and Kaplan–Meier curves were estimated for each wealth quartile across the United States and 16 countries in northern and western, southern, and eastern Europe. We used Cox ...