Bivariate income distributions with lognormal conditionals

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 371-383

  Sarabia, José María ^a   Castillo, Enrique ^a   Pascual, Marta ^a   Sarabia, María ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conditionally specified models; European community household panel; Lognormal distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648938663     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: 15738701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-006-9044-6     Document Type: Article

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