Barrett, Garry F.; Donald, Stephen G.; Bhattacharya, Debopam - In: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics 32 (2014) 1, pp. 1-13
This article proposes consistent nonparametric methods for testing the null hypothesis of Lorenz dominance. The methods are based on a class of statistical functionals defined over the difference between the Lorenz curves for two samples of welfare-related variables. We present two specific test...