An alternative functional form for estimating the Lorenz curve

Nicholas Rohde

Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 105, issue 1, pages 61-63

Abstract: We propose a simple single parameter functional form for the Lorenz curve. The new specification is fitted to existing data sets and is shown to provide a better fit than existing single parameter Lorenz curves for the given data.

Keywords: Gini; coefficient; Lorenz; curve; Parametric; form (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009

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