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A joint top income and wealth distribution

Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021

Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...

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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture

Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999

A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...

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Gini decompositions and Gini elasticities : on measuring the importance of income sources and population subgroups for income inequality

Jurkatis, Simon; Strehl, Wolfgang - 2014

This paper points to flaws in Gini decompositions by income sources and population subgroups and to common pitfalls in … this framework Gini elasticities may provide the only meaningful way to examine the relevance of income sources or … in the Gini coefficient and provide a coherent method to decompose the Gini trend by income sources. We add to the recent …

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Combining panel data sets with attrition and refreshment samples

Hirano, Keisuke; Imbens, Guido; Ridder, Geert; Rubin, … - 1998

With panel data important issues can be resolved that can not beaddressed with cross--sectional data. A major drawback is that paneldata suffer from more severe missing data problems. Adding a sampleconsisting of new units randomly drawn from the original populationas replacements for units who...

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On a simple survey measure of individual risk aversion

Hartog, Joop; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Jonker, Nicole - 2000

We ask individuals for their reservation price of a specified lotteryand deduce their Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion.This allows direct testing of common hypotheses on risk attitudes inthree datasets. We find that risk aversion indeed fallswith income and wealth. Entrepreneurs are less...

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Empirical relevance of the Hillman condition and comparative advantage

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2004

We analyze the empirical violation of the Hillman condition, a necessary and sufficient condition for the correspondence between comparative advantage and pre-trade relative prices. Our comprehensive data set allows us to investigate the Hillman condition for virtually all countries of the...

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Bayesian mode inference for discrete distributions in economics and finance

Cross, Jamie; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Labonne, Paul; … - 2023

Detecting heterogeneity within a population is crucial in many economic and financial applications. Econometrically, this requires a credible determination of multimodality in a given data distribution. We propose a straightforward yet effective technique for mode inference in discrete data...

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On positive value of information in risk sharing

Denderski, Piotr; Stoltenberg, Christian - 2015 - This Version: May 2015

We develop a novel argument why better public information can help countries to insure against idiosyncratic risk. Representative agents of developing and industrial countries receive public and private signals on their future income realization and engage in risk-sharing contracts with limited...

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Trade policy and the household distribution of income

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004

We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...

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Intergenerational transfers and wealth in the Euro-area : the relevance of inheritances and gifts in absolute and relative terms

Tiefensee, Anita; Westermeier, Christian - 2016

Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well-being of households. Key determinants of private wealth include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the...

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