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The diversity of household assets holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009: Measurement and determinants

Sierminska, Eva M.; Silber, Jacques - 2019

We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the … asset diversity and the way individual socio-economic characteristics as well as important life events affect this measure … household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States-- the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity …

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The Diversity of Household Assets Holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009: Measurement and Determinants

Sierminska, Eva; Silber, Jacques - 2019

We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the … asset diversity and the way individual socio-economic characteristics as well as important life events affect this measure … household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States – the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141199

The diversity of household assets holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009 : measurement and determinants

Sierminska, Eva; Silber, Jacques - In: Review of Economics of the Household 18 (2020) 3, pp. 599-634

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The diversity of household assets holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009 : measurement and determinants

Sierminska, Eva; Silber, Jacques - 2019

We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the … asset diversity and the way individual socio-economic characteristics as well as important life events affect this measure … household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States - the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149413

The diversity of household assets holdings in the United States in 2007 and 2009 : measurement and determinants

Sierminska, Eva; Silber, Jacques - 2019

We apply diversity indices, such as the Gini-Simpson index and entropy related indices, to the study of the … asset diversity and the way individual socio-economic characteristics as well as important life events affect this measure … household level data for 2007 and 2009 in the United States - the Survey of Consumer Finances. We find that asset diversity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099386

Reference Groups and the Poverty Line : An Axiomatic Approach with an Empirical Illustration

Chakravarty, Satya R.; Silber, Jacques; Chattopadhyay, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2015

A recent trend in the study of poverty is to consider a relative poverty line, one that is responsive to the nature of the income distribution. We develop an axiomatic approach to the determination of an amalgam poverty line. Given a reference income (e.g. the mean or the median), the amalgam...

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