Inequality measurement for ordered response health data

Ramses Abul Naga and Tarik Yalcin

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Abstract: When health status is an ordered response variable, Allison and Foster (2004) postulate that a distribution Q exhibits more inequality than a distribution P if Q is obtained from P via a sequence of median preserving spreads. This paper introduces a parametric family of inequality indices which are founded on the Allison and Foster ordering.

Keywords: Self-reported health status; inequality orderings; inequality measures. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I1 I3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2007-06
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Journal Article: Inequality measurement for ordered response health data (2008)
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