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Binary Choice Models with Discrete Regressors: Identification and Misspecification
Komarova, Tatiana - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012
In semiparametric binary response models, support conditions on the regressors are required to guarantee point identification of the parameter of interest. For example,one regressor is usually assumed to have continuous support conditional on the other regressors. In some instances, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658810
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Binary Choice Models with Discrete Regressors: Identification and Misspecification
Komarova, Tatiana - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012
In semiparametric binary response models, support conditions on the regressors are required to guarantee point identification of the parameter of interest. For example,one regressor is usually assumed to have continuous support conditional on the other regressors. In some instances, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559864
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Attitudes towards Risk and Inequality: A Questionnaire-Experimental Approach
Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank A - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2001
Orderings of income distribution in terms of inequality should be closely related to orderings in terms of risk. Using …' distributional perceptions. We show that in terms of both inequality and risk individuals consistently reject one of the standard … axioms of distributional comparison. Moreover, there are significant differences in the 'maps' of inequality and risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005310315
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Inequality and Envy
Cowell, Frank A; Ebert, Udo - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2006
Using a simple axiomatic structure we characterise two classes ofinequality indices - absolute and relative - that take into account "envy"in the income distribution. The concept of envy incorporated hereconcerns the distance of each person's income from his or herimmediately richer neighbour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797453
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Perceptions of Risk: an Experimental Approach using Internet Questionnaires
Cowell, Frank A; Cruces, Guillermo - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2003
Building on previous studies on perceptions of inequality, welfare and risk we investigate the structure of individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510519
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The Measurement of Poverty: An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation (published in Economic Letters, vol.22 (1997), pp.571-588)
Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank A - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 1994
We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on Poverty Measurement. Using a sample of 486 students from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which perceptions of poverty correspond to the axioms.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670745
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Measuring Inequality by Counting Complaints: Theory and Empirics
Devooght, Kurt - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2002
This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We … start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670752