Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Measuring Economic Inequality in Today’s World
UCL (University College London)
This online course developed Excel skills in data analysis and visualization, using real-world data on income, health, and education inequality. This course also covered common measures of inequality and their limitations, historical and current trends in income and wealth inequality between and within countries, types of government policies that can reduce economic inequality, and the relationship between inequality and economic performance.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Eileen Tipoe
Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and Staff Economist at CORE Econ
UCL (University College London)
Wendy Carlin
Professor of Economics
UCL (University College London)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain how data can be used to measure inequality and document trends over time
- Produce appropriate column charts, line charts, and scatterplots to visualise data
- Calculate and interpret summary measures of a distribution
- Calculate and interpret common measures of inequality
- Explain how governments can design policies to address inequality
Syllabus
Over the four weeks of this course, you’ll get to take a closer look at:
- How income inequality between and within countries has changed over the past millennium
- Recent trends in global income inequality and potential causes
- How inequality in health and education are measured
- How governments can design policies to reduce inequality
- The relationship between inequality and economic performance
Issued on 15th August 2025
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