Edgeworth expansions and normalizing transforms for inequality measures

DOI10.1016/j.jeconom.2008.12.022zbMath1429.62697MaRDI QIDQ302159

Christian Schluter, Kees Jan van Garderen

Publication date: 4 July 2016

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2008.12.022

zbMATH Keywords

generalized entropy inequality measures; higher-order expansions; normalizing transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P20: Applications of statistics to economics

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

91B82: Statistical methods; economic indices and measures

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Functional Sequential Treatment Allocation, Joint hypothesis tests for multidimensional inequality indices, Discussion of S.G. Donald et al. and R. Davidson, On the problem of inference for inequality measures for heavy‐tailed distributions

Uses Software

• bootlib

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