Nonparametric estimation of income distribution and poverty index

DOI10.1016/J.CRMA.2008.07.004MaRDI QIDQ943652zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Galaye Dia

Publication date 10 September 2008

Published in Comptes Rendus. Mathématique. Académie des Sciences, Paris (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2008.07.004

zbMATH Keywords

consistent estimatordensity estimationincome distributionpoverty indexsimulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Density estimation (62G07) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Review text

A class of estimators for the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke poverty index that applies to a large set of values of the poverty aversion index is proposed. The new class is buit employing the Parzen-Rozenblat kernel to estimate the density of the income distribution. Uniform almost sure consistency and mean-square consistency are established. A simulation study, for the special cases of the headcount ratio, the poverty gap index and the severity of power index, indicates that the new estimators perform well with finite samples too.

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