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Measuring Inequality: Statistical Inference Theory With Applications, Mihaela Paun
Measuring Inequality: Statistical Inference Theory With Applications, Mihaela Paun
Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation we develop statistical inference for the Atkinson index, one of the measures of inequality used in studying economic inequality.
Specifically, we construct empirical estimators for the Atkinson index, both in the parametric and nonparametric case, and derive formulas for the asymptotic variances for the estimators. These statistics are used for testing hypothesis and constructing confidence intervals for the Atkinson index. We test the validity and the robustness of the asymptotic theory, by simulations (using R, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics), in the case of one and two populations. In addition to proving asymptotic …