Incorporating covariates in the measurement of welfare and inequality: Methods and applications

Econometrics Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Donald, Stephen G ^a   Hsu, Yu Chin ^b   Barrett, Garry F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Semiparametric models; Statistical inference; Stochastic dominance; Welfare and inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857093187     PISSN: 13684221     EISSN: 1368423X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1368-423X.2011.00366.x     Document Type: Article

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