Inequality comparisons between countries and over time should take into account problems of data imperfection. We examine the contrasting experience of the UK and Spain during the 1980s in terms of the distribution of disposable income. We consider whether the apparent divergence in inequality...

We examine the performance of measures of mobility when allowance is made for the possibility of data contamination. We find that 'single-stage' indices - those that are applied directly to a sample from a multivariate income distribution - usually prove to be non-robust in the face of...

This dissertation is a collection of three essays that cover issues in poverty analysis. The first essay (Partial Identification of PovertyMeasures with Contaminated and Corrupted Data) applies a partial identification approach to poverty measurement when data errors arenon-classical in the...

In this paper we propose a whole class of estimators (“clockwise repeated median estimators” or CRM) for the simple regression model that are immune to manipulation by the agents generating the data. Although strategic considerations affecting the stability of the estimated parameters in...

mobility measures; robustness; data contamination