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Path Independent Inequality Measures

Journal of Economic Theory, 2000
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Foster, James E., Shneyerov, Artyom A.
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On measuring inequality

Behavioral Science, 1964
Inequality and concentration are central concepts in all the social sciences. Economists study inequalities in the distribution of wealth, income, productivity, or goods. Sociologists may be concerned with social mobility-inequality of opportunity-or with inequalities in living conditions-the degree to which minority groups are concentrated in ...
H R, Alker, B M, Russett
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Inequality (Measurement) [PDF]

open access: possible, 2008
This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion in the second edition of The New Palgrave.
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Measuring Ancient Inequality [PDF]

open access: possible, 2007
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman
Jeffrey G. Williamson   +2 more
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Measuring Attitudes Towards Inequality

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1999
Individuals' attitudes to inequality aversion are measured using survey data, based on the leaky‐bucket experiment, for several groups of students in Australia and Israel. Three forms of social welfare function are estimated. It is found that measures of inequality aversion can be obtained with some precision and that these estimates are substantially ...
Amiel, Yoram, Creedy, John, Hurn, Stan
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Measuring Inequality

2017
The focus of this chapter is on the argument from inductive risk in the context of social science research on disparate impact in employment outcomes. It identifies three types of situations in the testing of scientific theories, not sufficiently emphasized in the inductive risk literature, that raise considerations of inductive risk: choice of ...
Robin Andreasen, Heather Doty
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