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Median Independent Inequality Orderings Ramses H. Abul Naga and Tarik Yalcin
October 2010
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JEL Classification: I3, I1

Tags: ordered response data; equivalence relations; inequality orderings; inequality measures

Tax Compliance by Firms and Audit Policy Ralph Bayer and Frank A Cowell
September 2010
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JEL Classification: H20, H21

Tags: tax compliance; evasion; oligopoly

Redistributive Taxation, Public Expenditure and the Size of Government Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Joan Esteban
December 2009
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JEL Classification: H23, H50 O50

Tags: government policy; income taxation; public expenditure

Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach Frank A Cowell, Emmanuel Flachaire and Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
April 2009
Paper No' DARP 101:
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JEL Classification: D63; C10

Tags: goodness of fit; discrepancy; income distribution; inequality measurement

Inequality Decomposition - A Reconciliation Frank A Cowell and Carlo V. Fiorio
April 2009
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JEL Classification: D63

Tags: inequality; decomposition

The Class of Absolute Decomposable Inequality Measures Kristof Bosmans and Frank A Cowell
February 2009
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JEL Classification: D63; H20; H21

Tags: inequality measures; decomposability; translation invariance

Catastrophic Health Expenditure and Household Well-Being Ramses H. Abul Naga and Karine Lamiraud
November 2008
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Tags: catastrophic health expenditure; welfare change; poverty; performance of health insurance schemes.

Statistical Inference for Multidimensional Inequality Indices Ramses H. Abul Naga
August 2008
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JEL Classification: D63;C43

Tags: multidimensional inequality indices; large sample distributions; standard errors.

Corporate Tax Competition and Public Capital Stock Pedro Gomes and François Pouget
March 2008
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Income Distribution and Inequality Frank A Cowell
October 2007
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JEL Classification: C13; D63

Distributional Orderings: An Approach with Seven Flavours Wulf Gaertner, Frank A Cowell and Yoram Amiel
October 2007
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JEL Classification: C13; D63

Tags: social welfare; inequality; justice; risk; questionnaire experiments.

Inequality Measurement for Ordered Response Health Data Ramses H. Abul Naga and Tarik Yalcin
June 2007
Paper No' DARP 092:
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JEL Classification: 13; 11

Tags: self-reported health status; inequality orderings; inequality measures.

Modelling Lorenz Curves: robust and semi-parametric issues Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser
March 2007
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On the Measurement of Polarisation: A questionnaire study Yoram Amiel, Frank A Cowell and Xavier Ramos
March 2007
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JEL Classification: D63

Tags: polarisation; income distribution; inequality

Modelling Vulnerability in the UK Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Frank A Cowell
February 2007
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JEL Classification: D1; D31; I32

Tags: income variability; vulnerability; income dynamics; bhps

Inequality and Envy Frank A Cowell and Udo Ebert
December 2006
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JEL Classification: D63

Tags: inequality; envy; transfer principle.

Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation Kazutoshi Miyazawa
December 2006
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JEL Classification: D31; J13; O41

Tags: inequality; growth; fertility; accidental bequest.

Inequality: Measurement Frank A Cowell
August 2006
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JEL Classification: C13; D63

Tags: inequality; social welfare; ranking.

To Be or not To Be Involved: A Questionnaire-Experimental View on Harsanyi’s Utilitarian Ethics Yoram Amiel, Frank A Cowell and Wulf Gaertner June 2006
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JEL Classification: C13; D63

Tags: impartial observer theorem; utilitarianism; welfare.

Rethinking Inequality Decomposition: Comment Frank A Cowell and Carlo V. Fiorio
June 2006
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Gini, Deprivation and Complaints Frank A Cowell
February 2006
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JEL Classification: D63

Tags: inequality; deprivation; complaints; lorenz ordering.

Decomposition of Bivariate Inequality Indices by Attributes Ramses H. Abul Naga and Pierre-Yves Geoffard
February 2006
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JEL Classification: D31; D63

Tags: multidimensional inequality; relative indices; correlation increasing transfers; copulas.

Tax Compliance and Firms’ Strategic Interdependence Ralph Bayer and Frank A Cowell
February 2006
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JEL Classification: H20;H21

Tags: tax compliance; evasion; oligopoly

Anti-evasion auditing policy in the presence of common income shocks Miguel Sanchez
February 2006
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JEL Classification: H26; D82; D84; C72

Tags: keywords: tax evasion; coordination; global games; expectations; asymmetric information

Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes (published in Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 13 (2006), pp. 3-30) Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Frank A Cowell February 2006
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Understanding Inequality Trends: Microsimulation Decomposition for Italy Carlo V. Fiorio
February 2006
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JEL Classification: D31; D63; C51

Tags: microsimulation; counterfactual analysis; household inequality trend; inequality decomposition.

Static and Dynamic Poverty in Spain, 1993-2000,(published in Hacienda Pública, no 179 (2007), pp. 51-77) Elena Bárcena Martín and Frank A Cowell January 2006
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JEL Classification: D1; D31; I32

Tags: echp; exit rate; income distribution; poverty dynamics; re-entry rate; spain; static poverty.

Hierarchic contracting Rafael Hortala-Vallve and Miguel Sanchez
September 2005
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JEL Classification: D80; J30; L22; M12

Tags: principal-multi-agent relationships; moral hazard; team production; decentralisation; hierarchies; contract design

Income Fluctuation, Poverty and Well-Being Over Time: Theory and Application to Argentina Guillermo Cruces
July 2005
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JEL Classification: D81; I32; D63

Tags: risk; income fluctuations; panel data; poverty measurement; argentina

Growth and Inequality: A Demographic Explanation,(published in Journal of Population Economics, vol. 19 (2006), pp. 559-578) Kazutoshi Miyazawa July 2005
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JEL Classification: D31; J13; O41

Tags: inequality; growth; fertility; accidental bequest

Knowledge-Based Economic Development: Mass Media and the Weightless Economy REVISED MARCH 2009 Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
July 2005
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JEL Classification: D30 D80 O1 O57

Tags: information and communications technologies; mass media; economic growth and development; poverty; corruption; inequality

Risk-Adjusted Poverty in Argentina: Measurement and Determinants Guillermo Cruces and Quentin Wodon
September 2003
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Tags: risk; poverty; argentina.

Argentina's Crises and the Poor, 1995-2002 Guillermo Cruces and Quentin Wodon
July 2003
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JEL Classification: D63; D81; I32

Tags: poverty; unemployment; argentina.

Perceptions of Risk: an Experimental Approach using Internet Questionnaires, (published in Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 12 (2004), pp. 99-132). Frank A Cowell and Guillermo Cruces May 2003
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JEL Classification: C13; D63

Tags: inequality; risk; experiment; transfer principle; mean-preserving spread.

Theil, Inequality and the Structure of Income Distribution,(published in Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 13 (2006), pp. 345-360). Frank A Cowell May 2003
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Tags: theil; inequality; independence; homotheticity; translatability.

Convergence Club Empirics: Some Dynamics and Explanations of Unequal Growth across Indian States Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay March 2003
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Tags: convergence clubs; conditional convergence; distribution dynamics; infrastructure; capital investment; macroeconomic stability; panel data; india.

Sticks and Carrots, (published in The Crisis in Tax Administration, Aaron, H. J. and Slemrod, J. (eds.) The Brookings Institution, Washington DC, (2004) 230-275). Frank A Cowell March 2003
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Tags: compliance; tax evasion; risk-taking; enforcement.

Preference Reversals and the Analysis of Income Distributions Yoram Amiel, Frank A Cowell, Leima Davidovitz and Avraham Polovin March 2003
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Tags: preference reversals; social welfare; inequality; risk and experiments.

Who Bore the Burden of Wage Arrears in the Kyrgyz Republic? Ceema Zahra Namazie
November 2002
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Tags: transition; wage arrears; labour demand.

Early Evidence of Welfare Changes in the Kyrgyz Republic: Have Things Got Worse with Reforms? Ceema Zahra Namazie
November 2002
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Tags: transition; enterprise production; labour demand.

Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Revisiting the Prediction Approach of Dearden, Machin and Reed Ramses H. Abul Naga and Frank A Cowell September 2002
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Tags: intergenerational mobility; measurement error; prediction approach; simultaneous equations.

Complaints and Inequality, (published in Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 23, (2004), pp. 71-89. Frank A Cowell and Udo Ebert
March 2002
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Tags: inquality; complaints; transfer principle.

Sensitivity of Inequality Measures to Extreme Values, (published in Journal of Econometrics, vol. 141, (2007), pp. 1044-1072). Frank A Cowell and Emmanuel Flachaire March 2002
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Tags: inequality measures; statistical performance; robustness.

Measuring Inequality by Counting 'Complaints': Theory and Empirics, (published in Economics and Philosophy, vol. 19 (2003) pp. 241–263) Kurt Devooght January 2002
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Tags: inequality; complaints; transfer principle; temkin.

Distributional Dominance with Dirty Data, (published in Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, vol. 24 (2006), pp. 291-300) Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser August 2001
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Tags: distributional dominance; lorenz curve; robustness.

Risk and Inequality Perceptions Yoram Amiel and Frank A Cowell
July 2001
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Tags: risk; inequality; income transformations.

Attitudes towards Risk and Inequality: A Questionnaire-Experimental Approach, (published in Experimental Economics: Financial Markets, Auctions, and Decision Making, Andersson, F. and Holm, H. J. (ed.), Kluwer, Dewenter (2002) Chapter 9, 85-115) Yoram Amiel and Frank A Cowell June 2001
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Tags: inequality; risk; experiment; transfer principle.

Education, Inequality and Income Inequality Daniele Checchi
May 2001
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Tags: education inequality; income inequality; economic growth.

Robust Lorenz Curves: A Semiparametric Approach, (published in Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 5 (2007), pp. 21-37) Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser May 2001
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Tags: welfare dominance; lorenz curve; pareto model; m-estimators.

The Wild Bootstrap, Tamed at Last Russell Davidson and Emmanuel Flachaire
February 2001
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Tags: wild bootstrap; heteroskedasticity consistent covariance matrix estimator; size distortion.

Robust Income Distribution Estimation with Missing Data Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser
January 2001
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Tags: m-estimators; influence function; em algorithm; truncated data.

A Note on the Estimation of Intergenerational Income Correlations by the Method of Averaging Ramses H. Abul Naga
January 2001
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Tags: welfare index; inequality; poverty; sample; inference.

Galtonian Regression of Intergenerational Income Linkages: Biased Procedures, a New Estimator and Mean-Square Error Comparisons Ramses H. Abul Naga January 2001
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Tags: intergenerational mobility; galtonian regression; errors in variables; mean-square errors.

Decomposing Inequality in Greece: Results and Policy Implications Christos Papatheodorou
November 2000
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Tags: inequality; income distribution; decomposition analysis; population subgroups; income sources; greece.

Estimating Welfare Indices: Household Weights and Sample Design, (published in Research on Economic Inequality, vol. 9 (2002), pp. 147-172). Frank A Cowell and Stephen P Jenkins June 2000
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Tags: welfare index; inequality; poverty; sample; inference

Statistical Inference for Welfare under Complete and Incomplete Information, (published in Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 191-219) Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser December 1999
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Tags: inequality measurement; income distribution; lorenz curve; influence function; sampling variance; censoring; trimming

Estimating the Intergenerational Correlation of Incomes: An Errors in Variables Framework Ramses H. Abul Naga
July 1999
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Tags: intergenerational mobility; errors in variables

Responsibility-Sensitive Fair Compensation in Different Cultures Kurt Devooght and Erik Schokkaert
June 1999
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Tags: distributive justive; fair compensation

Income Inequality Comparisons with Dirty Data: The UK and Spain during the 1980s Frank A Cowell, Julie Litchfield and Magda Mercader-Prats June 1999
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Tags: lorenz dominance; data contamination; cross-country comparisons.

Choices in Egalitarian Distribution: Inequality Aversion versus Risk Aversion Leima Davidovitz and Yoram Kroll
March 1999
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Tags: inequality; income distribution; risk; experiments

Evaluation via Extended Orderings: Empirical Findings from West and East Wulf Gaertner and Jochen Jungeilges
March 1999
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Tags: distributive justice; rawlsianism; equity considerations

Education or Inflation? The Roles of Structural Factors and Macroeconomic Instability in Explaining Brazilian Inequality in the 1980s Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Julie Litchfield July 1998
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Tags: brazil; inequality decomposition; poverty; inflation and unemployment

Happiness in Transition: The Case of Kyrgyzstan Ceema Zahra Namazie and Peter Sanfey
July 1998
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Tags: happiness; kyrgyzstan; transition; welfare

Inequality in Greece: An Analysis by Income Source Christos Papatheodorou
July 1998
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Tags: inequality; income distribution; decomposition analysis; income sources; income taxes; tax evasion; development; greece

Income Mobility: A Robust Approach Frank A Cowell and Christian Schluter
July 1998
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Tags: mobility measures; robustness; data contamination

Measurement of Inequality (published in Handbook of Income Distribution, A B Atkinson and F Bourguignon (eds), 2000) Frank A Cowell July 1998
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Tags: inequality; social welfare; income distribution

The Subjective Approach to the Measurement of Income Inequality (published in Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement, J Silber (ed), Kluwer Academic Publishers (1999), pp.227-241) Yoram Amiel June 1998
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Tags: inequality; social welfare and poverty

Statistical Inference for Lorenz Curves with Censored Data Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser
June 1998
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Tags: lorenz curve; sampling errors

Inheritance and the Distribution of Wealth Frank A Cowell
May 1998
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Tags: inheritance; wealth; pareto distribution

Linear Inequality Concepts and Social Welfare Udo Ebert
November 1997
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Tags: inequality concept; ethical inequality measures; decomposability; social welfare

Prediction and Determination of Household Permanent Income Ramses H. Abul Naga and Robin Burgess
November 1997
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Tags: permanent income; prediction; determination; living standards; rural china

Prediction and Sufficiency in the Model Factor Analysis Ramses H. Abul Naga
November 1997
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Tags: latent variables; factor analysis; sufficiency; prediction; exponential family of distributions; living standards analysis

On the Non-Stationarity of German Income Mobility (and some observations on poverty dynamics) Christian Schluter
April 1997
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Tags: intra-distributional mobility; markovian models; time-varying transition probabilities; poverty.

Inequality, Welfare and Monotonicity Yoram Amiel and Frank A Cowell
April 1997
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Tags: inequality; social welfare monotonicity

On the Performance of Social Benefit Systems Christian Schluter
April 1997
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Tags: unemployment insurance; pay-roll taxation; poverty; inequality; welfare

Equivalence of Scales and Inequality (published in Income Inequality Measurement: From Theory to Practice, J Silber (ed), Dewenter: Kluwer (1999) Frank A Cowell and Magda Mercader-Prats April 1997
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Tags: inequality; social welfare; equivalence scales

Income Transformation and Income Inequality (published in Advances in Econometrics, Income Distribution & Scientific Methodology: Essays in Honour of Camilo Dagum, Daniel Slottje (ed)(Physica Verlag, 1999, pp.209-232) Yoram Amiel and Frank A Cowell January 1997
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Tags: inequality; transformation direction

Estimation of Inequality Indices, (published in Income Inequality Measurement:From Theory to Practice, J Silber (ed), Dewenter: Kluwer 1999) Frank A Cowell October 1996
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Tags: inequality; asymptotic estimates; resampling; grouping; robustness

Growing Apart: Inequality and Poverty Trends in Brazil in the 1980s Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Julie Litchfield
August 1996
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Tags: inequality; poverty; income distribution; welfare; brazil

Workers or Employers: Who is Shaping Wage Inequality in Portugal? Ana Rute Cardosa
August 1996
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Tags: wage structure; inequality decomposition; portugal; firm

Modelling Income Distribution in Spain: A Robust Parametric Approach Mercedes Prieto Alaiz and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser
June 1996
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Tags: income distribution; inequality; m-estimators; robust statistics; parametric estimation

Robust Estimation of Income Distribution Models with Grouped Data, (revised version published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association 92 (1997), pp. 333-340) Elvezio Ronchetti and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser June 1996
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Tags: diagnostics; grouping effects; influence function; local shift sensitivity; m-estimators; minimum hellinger distance estimators; minimum power divergence estimators; optimal b-robust estimators.

Income Distribution in Brazil 1981-1990: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches Frank A Cowell, Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Julie Litchfield March 1996
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Tags: income distribution; inequality; kernel density estimation; pareto functions; brazil

Choosing Between Two Income Distribution Models with Contaminated Data, (revised version published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Serie B, 15 (1997), pp. 715-727) Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser March 1996
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Tags: m-estimators; model choice; robust tests; income distribution; linear regression

Income Mobility in Germany: Evidence from Panel Data Christian Schluter
March 1996
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Tags: income mobility; kernel density estimates; transition matrices

Income Distribution and Inequality in Germany: Evidence from Panel Data Christian Schluter
March 1996
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Tags: income distribution; inequality; tax-benefit system

Family Instability, Family Incomes and Inequality Frank A Cowell
March 1996
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Tags: inequality; income distribution; family composition

Poverty Dynamics in Spain: A study of transitions in the 1990s Olga Cantó-Sánchez
February 1996
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Tags: income dynamics; poverty; mobility; transitions; spain; panel data; duration dependence; permanent poor; transitory poor; household

Distributional Orderings and the Transfer Principle: A Re-Examination (Now published in Research on Economic Inequality, vol.8 (1998), pp.195-215) Yoram Amiel and Frank A Cowell January 1996
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Tags: transfer principle; principle of transfers; pigou; dalton

Welfare Judgements in the Presence Contaminated Data, (published in Econometrica, vol. 70 (2002), pp. 1221-1233) Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser January 1996
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Tags: welfare dominance; lorenz curve; robustness

Public Pension Reform, Demographics ,and Inequality Robert K von Weizsäcker
June 1995
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Tags: income distribution; population ageing; old-age insurance reform; fiscal-demographic policy conflicts; social policy design.

The Allocation of Benefits underUncertainty: A Decision-Theoretic Framework Ramses H. Abul Naga
May 1995
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Tags: poverty; imperfect information; allocation of benefits

The Measurement of Poverty: An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation (published in Empirical Economics, vol.22 (1997), pp.571-588) Yoram Amiel and Frank A Cowell July 1994
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Tags: poverty; poverty axioms; inequality; transfer principle; monotonocity

Identifying the Poor: A Multiple Indicator Approach Ramses H. Abul Naga
June 1994
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Tags: poverty; latent variable; indicators

Robustness properties of poverty indices, (Now published in European Economic Review, vol. 40 (1996), pp. 1761-1771) Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser May 1994
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Tags: poverty; inequality; robustness; influence function

How much inequality can we explain? A methodology and an application to the USA (Now published in The Economic Journal, vol.105, no.429 (March 1995), pp. 421-430) Frank A Cowell and Stephen P Jenkins May 1994
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Tags: inequality; decomposition

Monotonicity and the Pareto Principle (Now published in Economics Letters 45 (1994), pp.447-450) Yoram Amiel and Frank A Cowell October 1993
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Tags: monotonicity; pareto superiority; income dominance

Robust estimation of personal income distribution models, (revised version published in The Canadian Journal of Statistics 22 (1994), pp. 247—258) Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser October 1993
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Tags: personal income distribution; inequality measures; parametric models; influence function; m-estimator.

Mixed dominance: a new criterion for poverty analysis Stephen Howes
October 1993
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Tags: poverty; second-order stochastic dominance criterion; welfare; inequality analyis.

Why not to aggregate up: the influence of aggregation on the ordering of distributions Stephen Howes
October 1993
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Tags: aggregation; income distribution

Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures: The Influence Function and the Principle of Transfers (Revised version in Econometrica, 64 (1996), pp.77-101) Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser October 1993
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Tags: inequality measurement; transfer principle; influence function; robust estimation

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