Research Catalog

Title

Assessing inequality / Lingxin Hao, Daniel Q. Naiman.

Author

Hao, Lingxin.

Publication

Los Angeles : SAGE, c2010.

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Additional Authors

• Naiman, Daniel Q.
• Sage Publications

Description

x, 149 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This monograpg reviews a set of widely used summary inequality measures, and the lesser known relative distribution method provides the basic rationale behind each measure and discusses their interconnections. It also introduces model-based decomposition of inequality over time using quantile regression. This approach enables researchers to estimate two different contributions to changes in inequality between two time points."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; 166

Uniform Title

Quantitative applications in the social sciences ; no. 07-166.

Subject

• Equality
• Social sciences > Statistical methods
• Social indicators
• Social accounting
• Socioeconomic Factors
• Social Sciences > methods
• Statistics as Topic
• Social sciences > Research
• Regression analysis

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PDFs, CDFs, quantile functions, and Lorenz curves -- Summary inequality measures -- Choices of inequality measures -- Relative distribution methods -- Inference issues -- Analyzing inequality trends -- An illustrative application: inequality in income and wealth in the United States, 1991-2001.

ISBN

• 9781412926294 (pbk.)
• 1412926297 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009052033

OCLC

490810154

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library