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Author: Zandvakili, Sourushe
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Mills, Jeffrey A. Zandvakili, Sourushe |
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Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping for Measures of Inequality Journal of Applied Econometrics 12,2 (March-April 1997): 133-150. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291099-1255%28199703%2912:2%3C133::AID-JAE433%3E3.0.CO;2-H/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Wiley Online Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Income; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Taxes Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The use of bootstrap methods to compute interval estimates is considered and hypothesis tests for decomposable measures of economic inequality are performed. Two applications of this approach, using the Gini coefficient and Theil's (1967) entropy measures of inequality, are provided. The first application employs pre- and post-tax aggregate state income data, constructed from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. It is found that although casual observation of the inequality measures suggests that the post-tax distribution of income is less equal among states than pre-tax income, none of these observed differences are statistically significant at the 10% level. The second application uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data to study youth inequality. It is found that youth inequality decreases as the cohort ages, but between age-group inequality has increased in the latter half of the 1980s. The results suggest that: 1. statistical inference is essential even when large samples are available, and 2. the bootstrap procedure appears to perform well in this setting. |
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Mills, Jeffrey A. and Sourushe Zandvakili. "Statistical Inference via Bootstrapping for Measures of Inequality." Journal of Applied Econometrics 12,2 (March-April 1997): 133-150.
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Zandvakili, Sourushe |
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Trends in Earnings Inequality Among Young Adults Review of Social Economy 60,1 (March 2002): 93-107 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Association for Social Economics Keyword(s): Earnings; Ethnic Differences; Income Distribution; Racial Differences; Wages, Youth Examines short and long run inequality and income stability; role of race and ethnicity in earnings disparities; based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), 1984-89, with individuals age 19-31; US. |
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Bibliography Citation
Zandvakili, Sourushe. "Trends in Earnings Inequality Among Young Adults." Review of Social Economy 60,1 (March 2002): 93-107.
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