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Is the Gini Index of Inequality Overly Sensitive to Changes in the Middle of the Income Distribution?

open access: yesStatistics and Public Policy, 2017
The Gini index is the most commonly used measure of income inequality. Like any single summary measure of a set of data, it cannot capture all aspects that are of interest to researchers.
Joseph L. Gastwirth
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The Effect of Inequality of Educational Facilities, Health, and Road Conditions toward Income Distribution in Central Java Province, Indonesia

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2018
This study examines the effect of inequality of public facilities, namely education, health, and road condition, on the income inequality in Central Java Province, Indonesia.
Herry Antono, Adhi Purnomo, Firmansyah
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Jackknife Empirical Likelihood-based inference for S-Gini indices

open access: yes, 2018
Widely used income inequality measure, Gini index is extended to form a family of income inequality measures known as Single-Series Gini (S-Gini) indices.
Kattumannil, Sudheesh K   +2 more
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How Has the Literature on Gini's Index Evolved in the Past 80 Years? [PDF]

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The Gini coefficient or index is perhaps one of the most used indicators of social and economic conditions. From its first proposal in English in 1921 to the present, a large number of papers on the Gini index has been written and published.
Kuan Xu
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Measuring inequality of well-being with a correlation-sensitive multidimensional Gini index [PDF]

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We propose to measure inequality of well-being with a multidimensional generalization of the Gini coefficient. We derive two inequality indices from their underlying social evaluation functions.
Koen Decancq, MarĂ­a Ana Lugo
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Feature selection based on neighborhood rough sets and Gini index. [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ Comput Sci, 2023
Zhang Y   +8 more
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Gini index by racial groups in the United States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Using regression analysis and calculus, economists measure the income concentration of a population by way of a metric known as a Gini index. A Gini index is a number ranging from 0 to 1, where 0 indicates perfect income equality in the measured ...
Sherwood, Rebecca
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Geographic distribution indices of general practitioners, midwives, pediatricians, and gynecologists in the public sector of Iran

open access: yesElectronic Physician, 2017
Background: Health workforce distribution is so important in access posture, coverage and equity. Following millennium development goals (MDGs), special attention to health workforces in relation with maternal and child health is required.
Rasoul Honarmand   +2 more
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Measuring education inequality - Gini coefficients of education [PDF]

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The authors use a Gini index to measure inequality in educational attainment. They present two methods (direct and indirect) for calculating an education Gini index, and generate a quinquennial data set on education Gini indexes for the over-15 ...
Fan, Xibo, Thomas, Vinod, Wang, Yan
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