Assessing Inequality

ISBN-13: 9781412926294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 160 str.

Lingxin Hao; Daniel Q. Naiman

Opis

Providing basic foundations for measuring inequality
from the perspective of distributional propertiesThis monograpg reviews a set of widely used summary inequality measures, and the lesser known relative distribution method provides the basic rationale behind each measure and discusses their interconnections. It also introduces model-based decomposition of inequality over time using quantile regression. This approach enables researchers to estimate two different contributions to changes in inequality between two time points.Key Features

• Clear statistical explanations provide fundamental statistical basis for understanding the new modeling framework
• Straightforward empirical examples reinforce statistical knowledge and ready-to-use procedures
• Multiple approaches to assessing inequality are introduced by starting with the basic distributional property and providing connections among approaches

This supplementary text is appropriate for any graduate-level, intermediate, or advanced statistics course across the social and behavioral sciences, as well as individual researchers.

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