Gini's nuclear family

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-322

  Aaberge, Rolf ^a  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Asymptotic distributions; Estimation; Measures of inequality; Measures of social welfare; Principles of transfer sensitivity; The Bonferroni coefficient; The Gini coefficient; The scaled conditional mean curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 35648948902     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: 15738701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-006-9050-8     Document Type: Article

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