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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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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Assessing poverty and inequality at a detailed regional level: New advances in spatial microsimulation
Harding, Ann; Lloyd, Rachel; Bill, Anthea; King, Anthony - 2004
During the past three years NATSEM has developed pathbreaking spatial microsimulation techniques, involving the creation of synthetic data about the socioeconomic characteristics of households at a detailed regional level. The data are potentially available at any level of geographic...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334845
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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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