On the measurement of inequality

By Anthony B. Atkinson. 1970

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A Unified Approach to Quantifying Algorithmic Unfairness: Measuring Individual &Group Unfairness via Inequality Indices (2018, methodology): “Borrowing insights from the rich body of work on the axiomatic characterization of inequality indices in economics and social science [3, 10, 19, 24, 25, 28, 34], we argue that many axioms satisfied by inequality indices are appealing properties for measures of algorithmic unfairness.”
Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence (2014, result): “also confirm the results in Beckman et al. (2004): the actual position of the respondent in the income distribution affects the answer given in the leaky bucket experiment.”
On the Evaluation of Economic Mobility (2001, background): “The above "transition matrix" means that each individual will have the same level of consumption in both periods with probability ( 1 ) and dierent levels of consumption with probability In order to clarify issues, we can adopt a common denition of "immobility": the society in our example will be c”
Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction (2007, unknown): “welfare function, in which relative inequality aversion is represented by the constant parameter e (see Atkinson, 1970 ).”
On Synthetic Indices Of Multidimensional Well-Being: Health And Income Inequalities In France, Germany, Italy And The United Kingdom (2007, background): “An alternative route is to specify dominance criteria which extend the notion of Lorenz dominance to multivariate distributions, along the lines of the seminal papers by Kolm (1977) and Atkinson and Bourguignon (1982). Dominance conditions for multidimensional poverty comparisons are developed by Bo”
Can the Paris deal boost SDGs achievement? An assessment of climate mitigation co-benefits or side-effects on poverty and inequality (2019, background): “Our choice is motivated by three main points: i) the Gini Index is oversensitive to changes in the middle of income distribution and instead is less sensitive to changes at the extremes (Atkinson, 1970).”
The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later (2010, unknown): “…focus on the three main FGT measures and find that the associated orderings are, in fact, the three orders of stochastic dominance developed in risk analysis, with P0 yielding first order dominance, P1 yielding second order dominance (used by Atkinson, 1970), and P2 yielding third order dominance.”
Assessing Risky Social Situations (2010, background): “…a social welfare function, like ex post criteria, but the function that is used must take the form of the “equally distributed equivalent” (Kolm 1968; Atkinson 1970), a classical example being the function .5n 1f ((1/n) f(u ))iip1 4 Yet another approach, proposed by Ben Porath, Gilboa, and…”
Compositional data: the sample space and its structure (2019, background): “The Gini, Theil, Atkinson and Entropy indexes (Gini 1921; Theil 1967; Atkinson 1970) are the most widely studied.”
Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences (2003, background): “Readers are referred to the recently published 1,000-page Handbook of Income Distribution edited by Atkinson and Bourguignon (2000) for a comprehensive discussion of the economic aspects of income distributions.”