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Decomposing the Bonferroni inequality index by subgroups : shapley value and balance of inequality
Giorgi, Giovanni M.; Guandalini, Alessio - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-16
inequality index. We also discuss a comparison with the Gini concentration index and highlight interesting properties of the … Bonferroni index. …
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A new inequality-sensitive multidimensional deprivation index (MDI) for dichotomous variables
Espinoza-Delgado, José; Silber, Jacques - 2021
In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … indicators using a counting approach. The resulting multidimensional deprivation index, or MDI for short, also has a nice …
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We examine the literature on post-1970 trends in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011...
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)
We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - This Version: March 27th, 2016
We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The current benchmark version of the dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482260
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This Version: November 24th, 2015
We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409506
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The global consumption and income project : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015
We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark version of the dataset presents estimates in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462536
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Nineteenth century body mass, height, and weight : inequality across quantiles
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
The definition of inequality is complicated and difficult to assess, and there are various means by which it is evaluated. This study uses the now well-accepted measures of body mass, height, and weight to assess inequality's relationship with current and cumulative net nutrition. Taller...
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Chapter 3. Multidimensional Poverty and Inequality
Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 141-216). 2015
This chapter examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. It first outlines three aspects preliminary to any multidimensional study: the selection of the relevant dimensions, the indicators used to measure them, and the procedures for their...
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