Bayesian Estimation of Atkinson Inequality Measures

Duangkamon Chotikapanich and John Creedy

No 766, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne

Abstract: 1.Introduction 2.Atkinson's Measure 2.1 Asymptotic Standard Errors 2.2 Grouped Data 3.Posterior Distributions 3.1 Posterior Density for The pis 3.2 Information About The uis 3.2.1 Lognormal Distribution of Income 3.2.2 Assumptions About Group Mean Incomes 4.Numerical Results 5.Conclusions

Keywords: DISTRIBUTION; INCOME; INFORMATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2000
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