Measuring inequality with ordinal data: a note

Buhong Zheng

A chapter in Inequality and Opportunity: Papers from the Second ECINEQ Society Meeting, 2008, pp 177-188 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This note formally investigates the applicability of stochastic dominance (Lorenz dominance) to ordinal data such as self-reported health status. We confirm that for ordinal data distributions, stochastic dominance has limited applicability in ranking social welfare, while it has no applicability in ranking inequality.

Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1016/S1049-2585(08)16008-2

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