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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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What do Americans know about inequality? It depends on how you ask them [PDF]
Judgment and Decision Making, 2012 A recent survey of inequality (Norton and Ariely, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6, 9-12) asked respondents to indicate what percent of the nation's total wealth is---and should be---controlled by richer and poorer quintiles of the U.S ...
Kimmo Eriksson, Brent Simpson
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GROSS INLAND ENERGY CONSUMPTION INEQUALITY IN EUROPE: AN EMPIRICAL APPROACH
Revista de Economía Mundial, 2018 This paper analyses the gross inland energy consumption (EC) in the European Union countries (EU-15) over the period 2005-2014. The standard tools in the measurement of income inequality such as Lorenz curves, Gini index, Generalized Entropy indices and ...
Marta Pascual Sáez +2 more
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An application of the Choquet theorem to the study of randomly-superinvariant measures [PDF]
Opuscula Mathematica, 2012 Given a real valued random variable \(\Theta\) we consider Borel measures \(\mu\) on \(\mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R})\), which satisfy the inequality \(\mu(B) \geq E\mu(B-\Theta)\) (\(B \in \mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R})\)) (or the integral inequality \(\mu(B) \geq ...
Teresa Rajba
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A Hausdorff Measure Inequality [PDF]
Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 1976 We prove that the Hausdorff ( m + k ) (m + k) -measure of a product set is no less than the product of the Hausdorff m-measure of the (measurable) first component set in R m {{\mathbf {R}}^m} and the ...
Ernst, Lawrence R., Freilich, Gerald
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Reducing health inequalities is a key objective for many governments and public health organizations. Whether inequalities are measured on the absolute (difference) or relative (ratio) scale can have a significant impact on judgments about whether health
Sam Harper +2 more
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Life expectancy versus lifespan inequality: A smudge or a clear relationship? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Interest in inequality, including lifespan inequality, is growing. Several studies, using various measures of variation in the length of life, reveal that as life expectancy increases, lifespan inequality tends to decrease, albeit with considerable ...
László Németh
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Inequality in Death from Social Conflicts: A Gini & Kolkata indices-based Study
, 2019 Human deaths caused by individual man-made conflicts (e.g., wars, armed-conflicts, terrorist-attacks etc.) occur unequally across the events (conflicts) and such inequality (in deaths) have been studied here using Lorenz curve and values of the ...
Chakrabarti, Bikas K., Sinha, Antika
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REGIONAL GROWTH IN PORTUGAL: ASSESSING THE CONTRIBUTION OF EARNINGS AND EDUCATION INEQUALITY [PDF]
Zbornik Radova: Geografski institut "Jovan Cvijić", 2015 Regional economic growth in Portugal has mainly been studied from the perspective of convergence with data ending by the early 2000’s. The country as a whole has stopped converging to the output levels of the richest European countries by this period and
Marta Simões +2 more
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Decentralization Under Energy Growth: Geographic Reallocation and Convergence in Bitcoin Mining
MathematicsUnderstanding how Bitcoin mining is distributed across countries is important for evaluating both the sustainability and resilience of the network. In this study, we examine the evolution of total Bitcoin electricity consumption alongside the geographic ...
Angeliki Papana +1 more
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