RICHNESS: Stata module to compute measures of income richness

Andreas Peichl () and Thilo Schaefer ()
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Thilo Schaefer: Cologne Center for Public Economics

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: richness computes the following richness measures based on the (income) distribution for each variable specified: headcount ratio and PSS (a series of Peichl, Schaefer and Scheicher (2006) indices)

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 8.2
Keywords: income distribution; richness; headcount ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: Written 2006-10-19
Note: This module may be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install richness". Windows users should not attempt to download these files with a web browser.

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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/richness.ado program code (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/richness.hlp help file (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/richness_example.do sample program (text/plain)
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/r/richness.pdf documentation (application/pdf)

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