Chapter 2 Measurement of inequality

By Frank A. Cowell. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Removing the anonymity axiom in assessing pro-poor growth (2007, background): “This axiom, sometimes also called ‘symmetry’, requires that the underlying social welfare function uses only the information about the income variable and not about, for example, some other characteristics which might be discernible in a sample or an enumeration of the population (Cowell 2000).”
Bootstrap inference for inequality, mobility and poverty measurement (2002, background): “The weight wi may incorporate two considerations (compare Cowell, 1989, 2000).”
Income Distribution in Macroeconomic Models (2005, background): “The interested reader is referred to Cowell (2000).”
Fractionalization and the Size of Government (2007, neutral): “Cowell (2000) for further details.”
CONSISTENCY OF ASYMMETRIC KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATORS AND SMOOTHED HISTOGRAMS WITH APPLICATION TO INCOME DATA (2005, methodology): “The estimation is performed on a comprehensive microdata set (n = 101, 864) already used in a study of the dynamics of income inequality by Cowell, Ferreira, and Litchfield (1998). These authors were interested in these data because of the importance of Brazil as a major world economy (ninth largest”
The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later (2010, background): “2See Atkinson [7]; Kolm [88–90]; and Sen [118], the surveys of Foster and Sen [61] and Cowell [36], and the retrospective of Kanbur [85].”
Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences (2003, methodology): “…of ink and tons of computer software have been used to analyze this somewhat controversial and touchy topic, and numerous books, theses, pamphlets, technical and research reports, memoranda, etc. are devoted to this subject matter (see, e.g., Chakravarty, 1990; Sen, 1997; or Cowell, 1995, 2000).”
Reinterpreting between-group inequality (2008, methodology): “Indeed, Cowell [4] argues: “It is almost essential”
Disproportionality Measures of Concentration, Specialization, and Localization (2008, background): “13 (iii) The projection function, fM, generally reflects the researcher’s relative emphasis on region-specific proportionality factors of different magnitudes (Cowell, 2000; Cowell and Flachaire, 2002).”