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The Measurement of Poverty : An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank A. - 2000

We re-examine some of the standard axioms used in the literature on poverty measurement. Using a sample of 486 students … from Australia, Israel and the USA we investigate the extent to which individuals' perceptions of poverty correspond to the … specific criteria for poverty measurement that we examined …

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The Measurement of Health Inequalities : Does Status Matter?

Costa-Font, Joan - 2017

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequality measurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...

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Goodness-of-Fit : An Economic Approach

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - 2010

Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions; goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriate in the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based on the EDF, an aggregation of differences in...

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Health inequality and health insurance coverage : the United States and China compared

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A.; Shi, Xuezhu - 2023

We study inequality in the distribution of self-assessed health (SAH) in the United States and China, two large countries that have expanded their insurance provisions in recent decades, but that lack universal coverage and differ in other social determinants of health. Using comparable health...

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Measuring health inequality with categorical data : some regional patterns

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2013

Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...

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The measurement of health inequalities : does status matter?

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2016

The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547679

On the Measurement of Polarisation : A Questionnaire Study

Amiel, Yoram - 2008

Starting from the axiomatisation of polarisation contained in Esteban and Ray (1994)and Chakravarty and Majumdar (2001) we investigate whether people's perceptionsof income polarisation is consistent with the key axioms. This is carried out using aquestionnaire-experimental approach that...

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Inequality and Envy

Cowell, Frank A. - 2008

Using a simple axiomatic structure we characterise two classes of inequality indices - absolute and relative - that take into account quot;envyquot; in the income distribution. The concept of envy incorporated here concerns the distance of each person's income from his or her immediately richer...

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Inequality : Measurement

Cowell, Frank A. - 2008

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Rethinking Inequality Decomposition : Comment

Cowell, Frank A. - 2008

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