Inequality as experienced difference: a reformulation of the Gini coefficient

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2019.108789MaRDI QIDQ2292778zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Bowles, Wendy Carlin

Publication date 5 February 2020

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

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Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108789

zbMATH Keywords

inequalityLorenz curvenetworkssocial interactions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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