Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data
Submitted by admin on 18 February 2020 - 11:23pm
Produced by:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Available from:
November 2019
Topic:
Poverty - Inequality - Aid Effectiveness
Year:
2020
Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction distributions for six countries reveal a substantial number of unanimous inequality rankings.
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