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Ungrouping income distributions: Synthesising samples for inequality and poverty analysis
Shorrocks, Anthony; Wan, Guanghua - 2008
counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284587
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Relative deprivation, personal income satisfaction, and average well-being under different income distributions
Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan; Morone, Andrea - 2005
This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency theory to explain background context effects, individual income satisfaction versus aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284529
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Measuring inequality without the Pigou-Dalton condition
Chateauneuf, Alain; Moyes, Patrick - 2005
Typical welfare and inequality measures are required to be Lorenz consistent which guarantees that inequality decreases and welfare increases as a result of a progressive transfer. We explore the implications for welfare and inequality measurement of substituting the weaker absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284885
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453277
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National and international income dispersion and aggregate expenditures
Fillat Castejón, Carmen; Francois, Joseph F. - 2004
We examine linkages between aggregate household income, distribution of that income, and aggregate cross-country expenditure patterns. We are able to decompose income effects into international income dispersion effects (from variations in average income) and national income dispersion (income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011338007
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A new inequality measure that is sensitive to extreme values and asymmetries
McAleer, Michael; Ryu, Hang-keun; Slottje, Daniel Jonathan - 2017
properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011773015
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A useful empirical tool box for distributional analysis
Beach, Charles M. - 2021
This paper offers a tool box of disaggregative measures of distributional change, including population shares, income shares, quantile mean incomes and relative mean incomes of different income groups. It highlights median-based measures along with quintiles and deciles. It also offers formulas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012662221
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A nifty fix for published distribution statistics : simplified distribution-free statistical inference
Beach, Charles M. - 2021
This paper applies the tool box measures of disaggregative income inequality characterization and the statistical methodology of Beach (2021) to percentile-based distribution statistics such as quintile income shares and decile means typically published by official statistical agencies. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012670923
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Sample sizes for reliably estimating lower and upper income shares in income distribution analysis
Beach, Charles M. - 2023
This paper uses distribution-free formulas for the asymptotic variances of sample quantile income shares - as typically published by statistical agencies as measures of the distribution of income inequality - to calculate how large a survey sample must be in order to estimate a more refined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014253712
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Better off or more apart? : empirically testing welfare and inequality dominance criteria
Beach, Charles M. - 2022
This paper provides the tools and procedures for empirically implementing several dominance criteria for social welfare comparisons and broad income inequality comparisons. Dominance criteria are expressed in terms of vectors of quantile ordinates based on income shares or quantile means....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169202