Subgroup decomposition of the Gini coefficient: a new solution to an old problem

DOI10.3982/ECTA22145MaRDI QIDQ7238029zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Vesa-Matti Heikkuri, Matthias Schief

Publication date 5 May 2026

Published in Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA22145

zbMATH Keywords

axiomatic frameworkBrunn-Minkowski theoremGini coefficientinequalitysubgroup decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences (91-XX)

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