Global income distributions and inequality, 1993 and 2000: Incorporating country-level inequality modeled with beta distributions

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 52-73

  Chotikapanich, Duangkamon ^a   Griffiths, William E ^b   Rao, D S Prasada ^c   Valencia, Vicar ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 84858593167     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00145     Document Type: Article

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