The Policy Significance of Inequality Decompositions

Ravi Kanbur

No 127237, Working Papers from Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management

Abstract: Economists are now familiar with “between” and “within” group inequality decompositions, for race, gender, spatial units, etc. But what exactly is the normative significance of the empirical results produced by these decompositions? This paper raises some basic questions about policy interpretations of decompositions that are found in the literature.

Keywords: Agricultural; and; Food; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14
Date: 2003-08
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Journal Article: The policy significance of inequality decompositions (2006)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.127237

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