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DARP Paper

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

Distributional dominance criteria are commonly applied to draw welfare inferences about comparisons, but conclusions drawn from empirical implementations of dominance criteria may be influenced by data contamination. We ...Read more...

August 2001

DARP Paper

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

Lorenz curves and second-order dominance criteria are known to be sensitive to data contamination in the right tail of the distribution. We propose two ways of dealing with the problem: (1) Estimate Lorenz curves using p...Read more...

May 2001

DARP Paper

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

We show how a collection of results in the literature on the empirical estimation of welfare indicators from sample data can be unified. We also demonstrate how some of these ideas can be extended to empirically importan...Read more...

December 1999

DARP Paper

Statistical Inference for Lorenz Curves with Censored Data

Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

Lorenz curves and associated tools for ranking income distributions are commonly estimated on the assumption that full, unbiased samples are available. However, it is common to find income and wealth distributions that a...Read more...

June 1998

DARP Paper

Welfare Judgements in the Presence Contaminated Data, (published in Econometrica, vol. 70 (2002), pp. 1221-1233)

Frank A Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

The economic analysis of income distribution and related topics makes extensive use of dominance criteria to draw inferences about welfare comparisons. However it is possible that - just as some inequality statistics can...Read more...

January 1996