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Decomposable Income Inequality Measures [PDF]
Econometrica, 1979 A decomposable inequality measure is defined as a measure such that the total inequality of a population can be broken down into a weighted average of the inequality existing within subgroups of the population and the inequality existing between them. Thus, decomposable measures differ only by the weights given to the inequality within the subgroups of
Francois Bourguignon
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VaccinesBackground: Monitoring immunization inequalities is crucial for achieving equity in vaccine coverage. Summary measures of health inequality provide a single numerical expression of immunization inequality.
Katherine Kirkby +5 more
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Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2019 AbstractInequality is important, both for its own sake and for its political, social, and economic implications. However, measuring inequality is not straightforward, as it requires decisions to be made on the variable, population, and distributional characteristics of interest. These decisions will naturally influence the conclusions that are drawn so
McGregor, Thomas +2 more
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Measuring environmental inequality [PDF]
Ecological Economics, 2016 This study presents alternative measures of environmental inequality in the 50 U.S. states for exposure to industrial air pollution. We examine three methodological issues. First, to what extent are environmental inequality measures sensitive to spatial scale and population weighting?
James K. Boyce +2 more
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Inequality measures for histograms
Statistica, 2007 While inequality or concentration measures are defined with reference to the distribution of a non-negative character among n individuals, most practical applications are effected on frequency distributions over k classes, namely on histograms, when ...
Benito Vittorio Frosini
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From the Pr\'ekopa-Leindler inequality to modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality [PDF]
, 2007 We develop in this paper an improvement of the method given by S. Bobkov and M. Ledoux. Using the Pr\'ekopa-Leindler inequality, we prove a modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality adapted for all measures on $\dR^n$, with a strictly convex and super ...
Gentil, Ivan
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002 A large body of literature is devoted to the measurement of income inequality, yet little attention is given to the question, Why measure inequality? However, the reasons for measurement bear importantly on whether and how measurement should be done. Upon examination, normative measures are found to be of questionable value.
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Inequality Measures: The Kolkata Index in Comparison With Other Measures
Frontiers in Physics, 2020 We provide a survey of the Kolkata index of social inequality, focusing in particular on income inequality. Based on the observation that inequality functions (such as the Lorenz function), giving the measures of income or wealth against that of the ...
Suchismita Banerjee +4 more
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On Opportunity Inequality Measurement [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 1997 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Do Inequality Measures Measure Inequality? [PDF]
, 2018 In the literature, much attention has been paid to a number of aspects of inequality including the distinction between relative and absolute inequality, axiomatization of inequality, the Lorenz criterion for inequality comparisons, properties of various inequality measures, and inequality decomposition.
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