Edgeworth expansions and normalizing transforms for inequality measures

DOI10.1016/J.JECONOM.2008.12.022MaRDI QIDQ302159zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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 measureshigher-order expansionsnormalizing transformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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