Jayadev, Arjun - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 1, pp. 270-276
This study uses survey data from India to examine the top percentile of the wealth distribution in India. Using nationally representative samples from two years, 1991 and 2002, a power law tail is found with a Pareto exponent ranging between 1.8 and 2.4. The tail is examined for three specific...