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Working Papers

2011

1. QUADRATIC PEN's PARADES: SOME NEW RESULTS AND AN APPLICATION
   Working Papers, Brock University, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2010

2. The Gini Index for a Quadratic Pen's Parade
   Working Papers, Brock University, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2025

1. A Simple Measure of Catastrophic Health Expenditures
   Health Economics, 2025, 34, (10), 1821-1831

2024

2. Adaptation of the Foster‐Greer‐Thorbecke poverty measures for the measurement of catastrophic health expenditures
   Health Economics, 2024, 33, (10), 2419-2436
3. Hybrid measures of multidimensional poverty
   Empirical Economics, 2024, 67, (3), 1211-1233 View citations (1)

2023

4. The regression approach to the estimation and additive decomposition of the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke poverty measures
   Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30, (16), 2136-2140

2022

5. The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke Poverty Measures Reveal More
   Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2022, 164, (3), 1481-1503 View citations (1)
6. The regression approach to the measurement and decomposition of the multidimensional Watts poverty index
   The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2022, 20, (4), 951-973 View citations (2)

2021

7. Olympic rankings based on objective weighting schemes
   Journal of Applied Statistics, 2021, 48, (3), 573-582

2017

8. Semiparametric versus parametric hedonic wine price models: an empirical investigation
   Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24, (13), 897-901 View citations (1)

2016

9. The Marginal Effects in Subgroup Decomposition of the Gini Index
   Journal of Official Statistics, 2016, 32, (3), 733-745

2014

10. A Conceptual Framework for Constructing a Corruption Diffusion Index
    Journal of Business Ethics, 2014, 125, (1), 1-9 View citations (2)
11. A Convenient Method of Decomposing the Gini Index by Population Subgroups
    Journal of Official Statistics, 2014, 30, (1), 91-105 View citations (7)
12. Local Electrical Utilities - Is Bigger Better?
    Canadian Public Policy, 2014, 40, (3), 283-291 View citations (1)
13. The Changing Size Distribution of California's North Coast Wineries*
    Journal of Wine Economics, 2014, 9, (1), 51-61

2013

14. Is the wealth of the world’s billionaires Paretian?
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013, 392, (4), 757-762 View citations (6)

2011

15. A Semiparametric Hedonic Pricing Model of Ontario Wines
    Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2011, 59, (3), 361-381 View citations (9)
16. Power laws in top wealth distributions: evidence from Canada
    Empirical Economics, 2011, 41, (2), 473-486 View citations (27)

2010

17. Simplifying the Water Poverty Index
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2010, 97, (2), 257-267 View citations (11)

2009

18. Economic determinants of the consumption of alcoholic beverages in Canada: a panel data analysis
    Empirical Economics, 2009, 37, (3), 599-613 View citations (9)

2007

19. Additional properties of a linear pen's parade for individual data using the stochastic approach to the Gini index
    Economics Letters, 2007, 96, (3), 369-374 View citations (3)

2006

20. A Cautionary Note on Estimating the Standard Error of the Gini Index of Inequality: Comment
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 68, (3), 391-393 View citations (3)
21. AN UPPER BOUND OF THE GINI INDEX IN THE ABSENCE OF MEAN INCOME INFORMATION
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 52, (4), 643-652 View citations (1)

2004

22. Calculating a Standard Error for the Gini Coefficient: Some Further Results: Reply
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 66, (3), 435-437 View citations (4)

2003

23. A Hedonic Price Function for a Northern BC Community
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2003, 61, (3), 285-296 View citations (2)
24. Bounds of the Gini Index Using Sparse Information on Mean Incomes
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 49, (3), 415-423 View citations (4)
25. The Choice of Principal Variables for Computing some Measures of Human Well-being
    Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2003, 64, (1), 139-152 View citations (34)

2000

26. A Convenient Method of Computing the Gini Index and its Standard Error
    Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2000, 62, (1), 123-129 View citations (39)
27. Hybrid models of the Lorenz curve
    Economics Letters, 2000, 69, (1), 39-44 View citations (24)
28. Inter-country inequality in human development indicators
    Applied Economics Letters, 2000, 7, (7), 443-446 View citations (19)

1997

29. The Canadian earnings functions under test
    Applied Economics Letters, 1997, 4, (2), 133-139 View citations (2)

1996

30. A new functional form for approximating the Lorenz curve
    Economics Letters, 1996, 52, (1), 21-29 View citations (18)

1995

31. A forecasting model of the Sri Lankan economy
    Economic Modelling, 1995, 12, (4), 343-375 View citations (5)
32. The Economic Development-Income Inequality Nexus
    American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1995, 54, (2), 217-229 View citations (4)
33. The stochastic approach to price index numbers: An expository note
    Economics Letters, 1995, 49, (4), 373-379 View citations (2)

1993

34. A Comparison of the Kernel and the ARIMA Estimates of Inflationary Expectations: Some Evidence from Canada
    Empirical Economics, 1993, 18, (2), 281-88

Chapters

2023

1. Water poverty
   Chapter 23 in Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation, 2023, pp 243-251