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BMC Public HealthBackground Understanding the socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of non-communicable disease risk factors can facilitate the development of more effective interventions. We aimed to assess the potential socioeconomic inequality in the prevalence
Vali Baigi +4 more
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INEQUALITY WITHIN AND AMONG NATIONS [PDF]
This paper looks at both within country and among country inequality. In the spirit of Dalton[1920] and Atkinson[1970] this paper reports estimates of the welfare loss arising from inequality. The paper also explores the implications of Duesenberry style
Michael C. Lovell
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Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes [PDF]
We provide, for the class of relative bidimensional inequality indices, a decomposition of inequality into two univariate Atkinson- Kolm-Sen indices and a third statistic which depends on the joint distribution of resources.multidimensional inequality ...
Ramses H. Abul Naga +1 more
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Measuring polarization, inequality, welfare and poverty [PDF]
This paper analyzes the relationship between polarization and inequality, welfare and poverty measures. First, the Wolfson polarization measure is generalized in terms of the between-groups and within-groups Gini components for income groups separated by
Juan Gabriel RodrÃguez
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A Note on Inequality Aversion Across Countries, Using Two New Measures [PDF]
Studies using the Gini Index as a measure of income inequality have consistently found a positive and significant effect of the Gini on both happiness and life satisfaction.
Macunovich, Diane
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An Atkinson-Gini Family of Social Evaluation Functions [PDF]
We propose a class of social evaluation functions and of inequality indices which merge the useful features of the family of Atkinson (1970) and of S-Gini (Donaldson and Weymark (1980, 1983), Yitzhaki (1983) and Kakwani (1980)) indices.
Araar, Abdelkrim, Duclos, Jean-Yves
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WHEN DID LATIN AMERICA FALL BEHIND?.EVIDENCE FROM LONG-RUN INTERNATIONAL INEQUALITY [PDF]
When did Latin America fall behind?. Has the gap between developed countries and Latin America widened over time?. This paper addresses these recurrent questions with the tools provided by the inequality literature.
Leandro Prados de la Escosura
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REVIEW OF INEQUALITY METRICS WITH APPLICATION IN INCOME INEQUALITY IN LOUISIANA [PDF]
Economic data sets usually are, by their nature, very large and therefore researchers naturally want to analyze the distribution of the data set and make statistical inference about various parameters of interest, such as means, medians, variances, etc ...
Mihaela Paun
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, 2016 Relative Index of Inequality for hospitalisation and catastrophic health expenditure by education of head of household in 2004 and 2012.
Adrian Renton (438069) +6 more
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Openness, inequality, and poverty : endowments matter [PDF]
Using tariffs as a measure of openness, the authors find consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments.
de Melo, Jaime +2 more
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