The Generalized Beta Distribution as a Model for the Distribution of Income: Estimation of Related Measures of Inequality

By James B. McDonald, Michael R Ransom. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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• WEALTH INEQUALITY: A SURVEY (2015, unknown): “…and Maddala 1976), the Dagum Type I (Dagum 1977, Kleiber 2008) or the more flexible Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind (Jenkins 2009, McDonald and Ransom 2008); see Kleiber and Kotz (2003) for a detailed description of all these distributions, Bandourian et al. (2003) for a…”
• Skewness and kurtosis properties of income distribution models (2013, methodology): “Equations for the Pietra, Theil, and Gini measures of inequality expressed in terms of the distributional parameters have been derived by various authors and are summarized in Johnson et al. (1994), Kleiber and Kotz (2003), and McDonald and Ransom (2008) for the LN, GG, GB1, GB2, and special cases.”