status. The approach in this paper is based on measuring inequality conditional on an individual's position in the … examine self-assessed health inequality using the sample of world countries contained in the World Health Survey. We also … perform correlation and regression analysis on the determinants of inequality estimates assuming an arbitrary cardinalisation …

) and Egypt, this paper utilizes the so-called entropy measures in the problem of estimating the income probability …

categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate … health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use … inequality for the countries contained in the World Health Survey; we also use regression analysis on the apparent determinants …

Mitigating climate change requires information about the inequality in energy consumption. Recent contributions … (Banerjee and Yakovenko, 2010; Lawrence et al., 2013; Yakovenko, 2010, 2013) have studied energy inequality through the lens of … maximum entropy. They claim a weighted international distribution of total primary energy demand should approach a Boltzmann …

This paper aims to investigate the drivers of inequality of opportunity in health outcome among children below 5 years … of age, using the Tunisian 2018 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey. This study adopts the general entropy measures to … examine the pattern of child health inequality. The results of the anthropometric measures show that 1.5% of children in …

generalized logarithmic mean coincides with minimizing a generalized entropy inequality measure. The Balinski-Young 'favoring … aggregate measures of seat/vote disproportionality of the generalized entropy family: using a divisor method based upon such a … small states' - ordering ranks the generalized entropy methods. This framework improves upon an inconsistency in the …

differentiates a subset of states in experiments. With three or more states, informational separability leads to entropy measures …

inequality-reducing transfers are captured when transfers occur from higher-income donors to lower-income recipients, which … inclusions, the Gini decomposition, and on the use of the generalized entropy index. …

Gini and entropy are the most use measures to gauge income inequalities. We show that each measure yields different …