Revisiting a functional form for the Lorenz curve

José María Sarabia (), Faustino Prieto and María Sarabia

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 107, issue 2, 249-252

Abstract: In a recent paper Rohde (2009) proposes a new functional form for estimating the Lorenz curve. This paper demonstrates that the model proposed by Rohde is a reparameterization of the model proposed by Aggarwal (1984). New and important properties of the model are established.

Keywords: Lorenz; ordering; Donaldson-Weymark-Kakwani; and; Pietra; inequality; indices; Mixture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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