residential racial segregation. Three useful features of the framework are: First, similarities in the mathematical structure …

residential racial segregation. Three useful features of the framework are: First, similarities in the mathematical structure … ; deductive theory ; probability distributions ; lognormal distribution ; Pareto distribution ; power-function distribution … ; race ; segregation …

Index of refraction is found to be a good measure of economic inequality within the Lorenz curve framework. It has … of wealth or income in different strata. In line with this analogy, first I compute refractive index for each stratum …. While an index value of less than 1.00 represents an ‘anomalous refraction' in optics, such a condition of inequality …

Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently put forward by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The MPI suffers from … several unattractive features that need to be better understood (given the prominence of the index). The MPI fails in …

In this paper, we propose a new multidimensional inequality index that satisfies a fundamental set of desired …

social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial … distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we can decompose this index into indices of spatial dispersion …

We consider the issue of measuring segregation in a population of small units, considering establishments in our … segregation indices as inequality indices on these unobserved, random probabilities. Because these probabilities are measured with … confidence intervals and a test of the binomial mixture model. Finally, we apply our method to measure the segregation of …