A stochastic dominance approach to the measurement of discrimination

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1342-1350

  Le Breton, Michel ^a   Michelangeli, Alessandra ^b   Peluso, Eugenio ^c  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discrimination measurement; Gastwirth index; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862329327     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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