field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects including inequality, poverty, and the modeling of income …

field of distributional analysis - covering subjects including inequality, poverty and the modelling of income distributions …

Although a wide array of stochastic dominance tests exist for poverty measurement and identification, they assume the … income distributions have independent poverty lines or a common absolute (fixed) poverty line. We propose a stochastic … dominance test for comparing income distributions up to a common relative poverty line (i.e., some fraction of the pooled median …

determined with a permutation procedure and a parametric bootstrap in the testsfor serial independence and linearity …