Inequality Measurement forOrdered Response Health Data

Ramses H. Abul Naga and Tarik Yalcin

STICERD - Distributional Analysis Research Programme Papers from Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

Abstract: When health status is an ordered response variable, Allison and Foster (2004)postulate that a distribution Q ?exhibits more inequality than a distribution P ?if Q ?isobtained from P ?via a sequence of median preserving spreads. This paper introduces aparametric family of inequality indices which are founded on the Allison and Fosterordering.

Keywords: Self-reported health status; inequality orderings; inequalitymeasures. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-06
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