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On the measurement of inequalities in health [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine, 1991 This paper offers a critical appraisal of the various methods employed to date to measure inequalities in health. It suggests that only two of these--the slope index of inequality and the concentration index--are likely to present an accurate picture of socioeconomic inequalities in health.
Wagstaff, Adam +2 more
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Nature Sustainability, 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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On Opportunity Inequality Measurement [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 1997 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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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 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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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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Interpreting inequality measures and changes in inequality [PDF]
New Zealand Economic Papers, 2015 This paper explores, in the context of the Atkinson inequality measure, attempts to make interpretations of orders of magnitude transparent. One suggestion is that the analogy of sharing a cake among a very small number of people provides a useful intuitive description for people who want some idea of what an inequality measure ‘actually means’.
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Getting the measure of inequality
Oxford Open Economics, 2022 Abstract I focus on one of the most commonly cited ‘facts’ about UK income inequality—that it has changed little over the last 30 years—and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g.
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Bell Inequalities with Overlapping Measurements
Physical Review Letters, 2023 9 pages, 3 figures.
Moisés Bermejo Morán +2 more
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Econometrics, 2018 It is sometimes observed and frequently assumed that top incomes in household surveys worldwide are poorly measured and that this problem biases the measurement of income inequality.
Vladimir Hlasny, Paolo Verme
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