inequality indices building on results provided by Ibragimov and Müller (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2010), and … they and Midões and de Crombrugghe (Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023) evaluate its performance. We highlight a feature … inference for inequality indices. …

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …

One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …

The hypothesis tested in this paper is whether the increasing inequality in recent years has had a significant impact …

demonstrate, ineqord can be used for dominance checks as well as for estimation of indices of polarization and inequality. …

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than … described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices … inequality, matters for individual SWL outcomes; so too does whether we look upwards or downwards at the (skewed) distribution …

-assessed health status? Has average well-being increased or well-being inequality decreased? How does the distribution of well …

distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … inequality rankings. …

measures of location, inequality and poverty risk can be readily computed. They can also efficiently process grouped income …