Document Type : ORIGINAL ARTICLE
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Department of Economics, Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, Alzahra University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
This study examines the impact of different types of inequality, including educational inequality, health inequality, wealth inequality, gender inequality, personal inequality, and legal inequality, on the national peace index using the generalized system moment econometric method. The statistical population includes the OECD, and OIC countries in the period 2009-2021. Estimations were made for annual data and 5-year averaged data. The research findings in both groups show a positive relationship between health inequality and peace, and the insignificance of the coefficient of legal inequality in the short term; in OIC countries, shows a negative relationship between personal, educational, and gender inequality and peace, and in OECD countries, represent a negative relationship between wealth inequality and peace. The results of the estimation based on average data show that in OIC countries, in the long run, reducing health inequality increases national peace. Also, in both groups of countries, the short-term impact of wealth inequality is no different from its long-term impact. Moreover, in OIC countries, the short-term effect of personal, educational, and gender inequality is not different from its long-term effect, and reducing personal, educational, and gender inequality always increases peace. According to the research findings, the estimated coefficient of health, gender, and education inequality variables in the two groups has the largest numerical size.
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