Inference on inequality from household survey data

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 674-707

  Bhattacharya, Debopam ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex survey; Dominance; Gini; Hadamard differentiable; Inequality; Lorenz process

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; POPULATION STATISTICS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS;

ASYMPTOTIC INFERENCE; COVARIANCE FUNCTIONS; GINI COEFFICIENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS; LORENZ PROCESS;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33847237564     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2005.09.003     Document Type: Article

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