Assessing Inequality

Lingxin Hao, Daniel Q. Naiman

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9781412926294
• eBook ISBN: 9781483342634
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

Providing basic foundations for measuring inequality
from the perspective of distributional properties

This monograpg reviews a set of widely used summary inequality measures, and the lesser known relative distribution method provides the basic rationale behind each measure and discusses their interconnections. It also introduces model-based decomposition of inequality over time using quantile regression. This approach enables researchers to estimate two different contributions to changes in inequality between two time points.

Key Features

• Clear statistical explanations provide fundamental statistical basis for understanding the new modeling framework
• Straightforward empirical examples reinforce statistical knowledge and ready-to-use procedures
• Multiple approaches to assessing inequality are introduced by starting with the basic distributional property and providing connections among approaches

This supplementary text is appropriate for any graduate-level, intermediate, or advanced statistics course across the social and behavioral sciences, as well as individual researchers.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Brief Contents
• Detailed Contents
• About the Authors
• Series Editor’s Introduction
• Acknowledgments
• 1. introduction
• 2. PDfs, CDfs, quantile functions, and lorenz Curves
• 3. summary inequality Measures
• 4. Choices of inequality Measures
• 5. relative Distribution Methods
• 6. inference issues
• 7. Analyzing inequality trends
• 8. An illustrative Application: inequality in income and Wealth in the united states, 1991–2001
• References
• Index