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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility

Jenkins, Stephen P.; VanKerm, Philippe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

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Robustness of bootstrap in instrumental variable regression

Camponovo, Lorenzo; Otsu, Taisuke - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2014

This paper studies robustness of bootstrap inference methods for instrumental variable (IV)regression models. We consider test statistics for parameter hypotheses based on the IV estimatorand generalized method of trimmed moments (GMTM) estimator introduced by Cížek (2008, 2009),and compare...

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The Bootstrap and the Edgeworth Correction for Semiparametric Averaged Derivatives

Nishiyama, Yoshihiko; Robinson, Peter M - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2005

In a number of semiparametric models, smoothing seems necessary in order to obtain estimates of the parametric component which are asymptotically normal and converge at parametric rate. However, smoothing can inflate the error in the normal approximation, so that refined approximations are of...

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Bootstrap Tests of Stochastic Dominance with AsymptoticSimilarity on the Boundary

Linton, Oliver; Song, Kyungchul; Whang, Yoon-Jae - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2008

We propose a new method of testing stochastic dominance which improves onexisting tests based on bootstrap or subsampling. Our test requires estimation ofthe contact sets between the marginal distributions. Our tests have asymptoticsizes that are exactly equal to the nominal level uniformly over...

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Estimating Alternative Technology Sets in Nonparametric Efficiency Analysis: Restriction Tests for Panel and Clustered Data

Neumann, Anne; Nieswand, Maria; Schubert, Torben - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013

Nonparametric efficiency analysis has become a widely applied technique to support industrial benchmarking as well as a variety of incentive- based regulation policies. In practice such exercises are often plagued by incomplete knowledge about the correct specifications of inputs and outputs....

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A Note on the Estimation of Intergenerational Income Correlations by the Method of Averaging

Naga, Ramses H. Abul - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2001

Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...

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On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems

Schluter, Christian - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1997

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

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Preference Reversals and the Analysis of Income Distributions

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank A; Davidovitz, Leima; … - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2003

It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...

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Enfranchisement and Representation: Italy 1909-1913

Larcinese, Valentino - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2011

This paper presents evidence on the consequences of the 1912 introduction of "quasiuniversal" male suffrage in Italy. The reform increased the electorate from slightly less than three million to 8,650,000 and left the electoral rules and the district boundaries unchanged. This allows us to...

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