Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of 'Secondary' Data -Sets: Income Inequality in OECD Countries

By Anthony B. Atkinson, A. Brandolini. 2000

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• Inequality and Growth: What Can the Data Say? (2000, background): “Atkinson and Brandolini (1999) carefully discuss the Deininger and Squire data for the OECD countries, and find that it has important problems.”
• Inequality and Economic Growth: The Empirical Relationship Reconsidered in the Light of Comparable Data (2005, unknown): “Atkinson and Brandolini (1999) , in a paper which critiques the Deininger and Squire (1996) data set, particularly with respect to the OECD countries, caution against such adjustments, arguing ‘[i]n our view, the solution to the heterogeneity of the available statistics is unlikely to be the simple ”
• What Do We Know about Global Income Inequality (2008, background): “Atkinson and Brandolini (2001) discuss some of these issues in their review of ‘secondary’ datasets used in studies of income inequality.”
• Income Inequality in OECD Countries: Data and Explanations (2003, unknown): “…is not the focus of this article, the 2 These definitional issues are discussed in, among other places, Atkinson, Rainwater and Smeeding (1995), Atkinson and Brandolini (2001), and the Expert Group on Household Income Statistics (2001). difference between the inequality in market income and…”
• Inequality, Democracy, and Persistence: Is There a Political Kuznets Curve? (2001, unknown): “28 As Atkinson and Brandolini (1999) have shown recently, the income inequality data of Deininger and Squire are far from perfect.”
• Growth is Good for the Poor (2001, unknown): “24 See for example the criticism of Rodriguez and Rodrik (1999), who note that most of the explanatory power of the Sachs-Warner index derives from the components that measure the black market premium on foreign exchange and whether the state holds a monopoly on exports.”
• Intersectoral Transfer, Growth, and Inequality in Rural Ecuador (2001, background): “In addition, it should be emphasized that our approach does not su€er from problems of data comparability that plague empirical analysis at the cross-country level (see, for example, Atkinson & Brandolini, 1999 ).”