distribution of a function of random variables, and choosing between two or more distributions. To illustrate the procedures we … ; deductive theory ; probability distributions ; lognormal distribution ; Pareto distribution ; power-function distribution … ; rectangular distribution ; exponential distribution ; normal distribution ; pooling ; matching ; multilevel modeling ; inequality …

implications regarding inequality. This paper derives a relation between a Lorenz Curve and the modality of its underlying income … Inequality Database underlines the relevance of the theoretical result: Curve-fitting of decile data based on criteria such as … ; Modality ; Inequality ; Goodness of Fit …

and concludes with an empirical illustration for the case of Honduras. -- pro-poor ; growth ; income ; inequality …

Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to calculate … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992 - 2010. Changes in these measures are …

Order discrimination curves are derived to refine the first one by taking into account inequality and/or efficiency in the … indices. We use standard economic size distributions to recover closed forms of discrimination curves. The main results are …

inequality are better estimated when the true distribution is unimodal than multimodal. For unimodal distributions, biases …Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available … these methods, we use unit data from several household surveys and theoretical distributions. We find that poverty and …

This paper studies the inequality in the distribution of social interaction profiles among individuals. An interaction … index, that allows to ranks all the in-between configurations according to the level of inequality in interaction profiles … they exhibit. The Gini Exposure index extends the well-known inequality Gini coefficient to the multi-variate setting and …

In this paper, income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are … estimated by a method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to … calculate measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992-2010. Changes in these measures …

This paper revisits the fitting of parametric distributions to earned income data. In line with Camilo Dagum's dictum …

the analysis of the associated moments and various tools for the measurement of inequality. An empirical application …, including a comparison of alternative distributions, is made to household income data in Italy for the years 1989 to 2006 …