Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for top income shares

Michał Brzeziński

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 120, issue 1, 10-13

Abstract: We analyse statistical inference for top income shares in finite samples. The asymptotic inference performs poorly even in large samples. The standard bootstrap tests give some improvement, but can be unreliable. The semi-parametric bootstrap approach is accurate in moderate and larger samples.

Keywords: Top income shares; Income distribution; Inference; Bootstrap; Semi-parametric bootstrap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 C15 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.03.045

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