Bias Correction for Inequality Measures: An application to China and Kenya

Robert Breunig

Departmental Working Papers from The Australian National University, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics

Abstract: This article applies an analytical bias correction technique for inequality measures to income data from China and Kenya. We use the coefficient of variation squared and illustrate how the bias is downward for positively skewed distributions. The analytical bias correction technique is then compared to a jackknife estimator in a simulation exercise. The bias will be important, even for moderately large sample sizes.

Keywords: Coefficient of variation; small sample bias correction; inequality measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 12 pages
Date: 2001
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