field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects including inequality, poverty, and the modeling of income …

Although a wide array of stochastic dominance tests exist for poverty measurement and identification, they assume the … income distributions have independent poverty lines or a common absolute (fixed) poverty line. We propose a stochastic … dominance test for comparing income distributions up to a common relative poverty line (i.e., some fraction of the pooled median …

determined with a permutation procedure and a parametric bootstrap in the testsfor serial independence and linearity …

functionals of kernel-type estimators (1 < p < ∞) and is easy to implement in general, mainly due to its recourse to the bootstrap … method. The bootstrap procedure is based on nonparametric bootstrap applied to kernel-based test statistics, with estimated … "contact sets". We provide regularity conditions under which the bootstrap test is asymptotically valid uniformly over a large …