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Working Papers

2009

1. Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach
   Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics
2. Inequality Decompositions ?A Reconciliation
   Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

2007

3. Distributional Orderings: An Approach with Seven Flavours
   STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
4. Income Distribution and Inequality
   STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
5. Income distribution and inequality measurement: The problem of extreme values
   Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL View citations
   Also in Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1) (2004) View citations
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Econometrics (2007)
6. Modelling Lorenz Curves:robust and semi-parametric issues
   STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
7. Modelling Vulnerability in the UK
   Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics
   Also in STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE (2007)
8. On the Measurement of Polarisation: A Questionnaire Study
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
   Also in STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE (2007)

2006

9. Inequality and Envy
   STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
10. Inequality: Measurement
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
11. Rethinking Inequality Decomposition:Comment
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
12. Static and Dynamic Poverty in Spain, 1993-2000
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
    See also Journal Article in Hacienda Pública Española (2006)
13. Tax Compliance and Firms' Strategic Interdependence
    Working Papers, University of Adelaide, School of Economics View citations
    Also in STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE (2006) View citations
14. To Be or not To Be Involved:A Questionnaire-Experimental View on Harsanyi’sUtilitarian Ethics
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
    See also Journal Article in Social Choice and Welfare (2009)
15. Vulnerable Households and Variable Incomes
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

2005

16. Theil, Inequality Indices and Decomposition
    Working Papers, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

2003

17. Perceptions of Risk: an Experimental Approach using Internet Questionnaires
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
18. Preference Reversals and the Analysis of Income Distributions
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
    See also Journal Article in Social Choice and Welfare (2008)
19. Sticks and Carrots
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
20. Theil, Inequality and the Structure of Income Distribution
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations

2002

21. Complaints and Inequality
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
    See also Journal Article in Social Choice and Welfare (2004)
22. Intergenerational Mobility in Britain: Revisiting the Prediction Approach of Dearden, Machin and Reed
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
    Also in Cahiers de Recherches Economiques du Département d'Econométrie et d'Economie politique (DEEP), Université de Lausanne, Faculté des HEC, DEEP (2002)
23. Sensitivity of Inequality Measures to Extreme Values
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations

2001

24. Attitudes towards Risk and Inequality: A Questionnaire-Experimental Approach
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
25. Distributional Dominance with Dirty Data
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
26. Estimating Welfare Indices: household weights and sample design
    ISER working papers, Institute for Social and Economic Research View citations
    Also in STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE (2000)
    Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research (2000) View citations
27. Risk and Inequality Perceptions
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
28. Robust Lorenz Curves: A Semiparametric Approach
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations

1999

29. Income Inequality Comparisons with Dirty Data: The UK and Spain during the 1980s
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
30. Statistical Inference for Welfare under Complete and Incomplete Information
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations

1998

31. Income Mobility: A Robust Approach (published in Income Inequality Measurement: From Theory to Practice, J Silber (ed, Dewenter: Kluver, 1999)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
32. Inheritance and the Distribution of Wealth
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
33. Measurement of Inequality (published in Handbook of Income Distribution, A B Atkinson and F Bourguignon (eds), 1998)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
34. Measuring Income Mobility with Dirty Data (published in Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(3), May 1999)
    CASE Papers, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE
35. Statistical Inference for Lorenz Curves with Censored Data
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations

1997

36. Equivalence of Scales and Inequality (published in Income Inequality Measurement:From Theory to Practice, J Silber (ed), Dewenter: Kluver (1999)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
37. 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)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
38. Inequality, Welfare and Monotonicity
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

1996

39. Distributional Orderings and the Transfer Principle: A Re-Examination (Now published in Research in Economic Inequality, vol.8 (1998), pp.195-215)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
40. Estimation of Inequality Indices
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
41. Family Instability, Family Incomes and Inequality
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
42. Income Distribution in Brazil 1981-1990: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations
43. Welfare Judgements in the Presence Contaminated Data
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE View citations

1994

44. 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)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
45. Robustness properties of poverty indices
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
46. The Measurement of Poverty: An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation (published in Economic Letters, vol.22 (1997), pp.571-588)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

1993

47. Monotonicity and the Pareto Principle (Now published in Economic Letters 45 (1994), pp.447-450)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE
48. Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures: The Influence Function and the Principle of Transfers (Revised version in Economica, 64 (1996), pp.77-101)
    STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

1987

49. Unwillingness to pay: Tax evasion and public good provision
    Discussion Paper Serie A, University of Bonn, Germany View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1988)

Journal Articles

2009

1. To be or not to be involved: a questionnaire-experimental view on Harsanyi’s utilitarian ethics
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 32, (2), 299-316
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2008

2. Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 30, (2), 305-330
   See also Working Paper (2003)

2007

3. Income distribution and inequality measurement: The problem of extreme values
   Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 141, (2), 1044-1072 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2007)
4. Robust stochastic dominance: A semi-parametric approach
   Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007, 5, (1), 21-37 View citations

2006

5. Distributional Dominance With Trimmed Data
   Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2006, 24, 291-300 View citations
6. Static and Dynamic Poverty in Spain, 1993-2000
   Hacienda Pública Española, 2006, 179, (4), 51-77
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2004

7. Complaints and inequality
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2004, 23, (1), 71-89 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2002)

2003

8. Distribution-Free Inference for Welfare Indices under Complete and Incomplete Information
   Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003, 1, (3), 191-219 View citations

2002

9. Welfare Rankings in the Presence of Contaminated Data
   Econometrica, 2002, 70, (3), 1221-1233 View citations

2001

10. Risk perceptions and distributional judgments
    European Economic Review, 2001, 45, (4-6), 941-952 View citations
11. Risk perceptions, income transformations and inequality
    European Economic Review, 2001, 45, (4-6), 964-976 View citations

1997

12. The Measurement of Poverty: An Experimental Questionnaire Investigation
    Empirical Economics, 1997, 22, (4), 571-88 View citations

1996

13. Inequality among the Kibbutzim
    Economica, 1996, 63, (250), S63-85 View citations
14. Poverty measurement with contaminated data: A robust approach
    European Economic Review, 1996, 40, (9), 1761-1771 View citations
15. Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures
    Econometrica, 1996, 64, (1), 77-101 View citations

1995

16. How Much Inequality Can We Explain? A Methodology and an Application to the United States
    Economic Journal, 1995, 105, (429), 421-30 View citations

1994

17. Dwarfs and giants in the 1980s: trends in the UK income distribution
    Fiscal Studies, 1994, 15, (1), 99-118
18. Monotonicity, dominance and the Pareto principle
    Economics Letters, 1994, 45, (4), 447-450 View citations
19. Parametric Equivalence Scales and Scale Relativities
    Economic Journal, 1994, 104, (425), 891-900 View citations

1992

20. Differences in Needs and Assessment of Income Distributions
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 1992, 44, (2), 77-124 View citations
21. Equivalence Scale Relativities and the Extent of Inequality and Poverty
    Economic Journal, 1992, 102, (414), 1067-82 View citations
22. Measurement of income inequality: Experimental test by questionnaire
    Journal of Public Economics, 1992, 47, (1), 3-26 View citations
23. Tax evasion and inequity
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 1992, 13, (4), 521-543 View citations

1991

24. Grouping bounds for inequality measures under alternative informational assumptions
    Journal of Econometrics, 1991, 48, (1-2), 1-14 View citations

1990

25. Tax Sheltering and the Cost of Evasion
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1990, 42, (1), 231-43 View citations

1989

26. Honesty is sometimes the best policy
    European Economic Review, 1989, 33, (2-3), 605-617 View citations
27. Sampling variance and decomposable inequality measures
    Journal of Econometrics, 1989, 42, (1), 27-41 View citations

1988

28. Inequality Decomposition: Three Bad Measures
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 1988, 40, (4), 309-12 View citations
29. Unwillingness to pay: Tax evasion and public good provision
    Journal of Public Economics, 1988, 36, (3), 305-321 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1987)

1985

30. 'A Fair Suck of the Sauce Bottle' or What Do You Mean by Inequality?
    The Economic Record, 1985, 61, (173), 567-79 View citations
31. Measures of Distributional Change: An Axiomatic Approach
    Review of Economic Studies, 1985, 52, (1), 135-51 View citations
32. Multilevel Decomposition of Theil's Index of Inequality [Decomposing Theil's Index of Inequality into Between and Within Components: A Note]
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1985, 31, (2), 201-05
33. Tax evasion with labour income
    Journal of Public Economics, 1985, 26, (1), 19-34 View citations
34. The Economic Analysis of Tax Evasion
    Bulletin of Economic Research, 1985, 37, (3), 163-93 View citations

1984

35. The Structure of American Income Inequality
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1984, 30, (3), 351-75 View citations

1982

36. The Estimation and Interpolation of Inequality Measures
    Review of Economic Studies, 1982, 49, (2), 273-90 View citations

1981

37. Additivity and the entropy concept: An axiomatic approach to inequality measurement
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1981, 25, (1), 131-143 View citations
38. Income Maintenance Schemes under Wage-Rate Uncertainty
    American Economic Review, 1981, 71, (4), 692-703
39. Taxation and Labour Supply with Risky Activities
    Economica, 1981, 48, (192), 365-79 View citations

1980

40. Generalized entropy and the measurement of distributional change
    European Economic Review, 1980, 13, (1), 147-159 View citations
41. On the Structure of Additive Inequality Measures
    Review of Economic Studies, 1980, 47, (3), 521-31 View citations

1975

42. Income tax incidence in an ageing population: An examination of the measurement of income redistribution
    European Economic Review, 1975, 6, (4), 343-367
43. Some Notes on Progression and Risk-Taking
    Economica, 1975, 42, (167), 313-18

Books

1990

1. Cheating the Government: The Economics of Evasion, vol 1
   MIT Press Books, The MIT Press View citations

Chapters

2000

1. Measurement of inequality
   Chapter 02 in Handbook of Income Distribution, 2000, vol. 1, pp 87-166 View citations

Editor

1. Economica
   London School of Economics and Political Science