Search Results - subject:"Gini's coefficient"

Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study

Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Osei, … - 2023

Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently …

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Panel data analysis of internal conflict and income inequality

Parsons, Brandon; Naghshpour, Shahdad - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 12 (2023) 1, pp. 79-101

The study determines how worsening internal and external conflict affects income inequality. The paper accounts for contributing variables and analyzes panel data in an unbalanced panel of 106 countries from 1988 to 2018-the panel data model groups by development status. The econometric model...

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"Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries:" A Methodological Comment

Stark, Oded - 2023

Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and …] improve [the COVID-19 outcomes /] underlying health of their populations." In this Comment, we argue that reducing the Gini … coefficient of the income distribution of a population need not weaken the population's social stress. It is this stress which is …

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Natural disasters and economic inequality : insights from wildfires across the globe

Paudel, Jayash - 2023

Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across the globe. This article employs satellite data on real-time active fire locations to evaluate the short-term impact of forest fires on economic inequality around the world. Using...

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A Schumpeterian Exploration of Gini and Top/Bottom Income Shares

Haruyama, Tetsugen - 2023

Data show that an increase in the Gini coefficient is associated with a falling bottom pB% income share and an …

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Gini Coefficient is Not Enough

Dong, Ruizhi; Chen, Hongyu - 2023

income share as an indicator of inequality into a theoretical model to replace the typical Gini coefficient, we refute the … difficult to put in a word. We also suggest that it may not be enough just to use the Gini coefficient to examine inequality in …

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Robust Bma Analysis with Gini Regressions : An Application to PISA Scores

Dimiski, Anastasia; Kourtellos, Andros; Stengos, Thanasis - 2023

We revisit the relationship between pre-primary education and achievement test scores in the primary school, by employing a Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) approach combined with Gini regression estimates. The data are taken from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for...

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Modeling inequality in access to agricultural productive resources and socioeconomic determinants of household food security in Ghana : a cross-sectional study

Dwomoh, Duah; Agyabeng, Kofi; Tuffour, Henry Oppong; … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-21

Women in rural communities remain the most vulnerable population in accessing agricultural productive resources with dire implications for food security, malnutrition, and poverty. Effective agricultural and food-related policies should be based on a better understanding of the complex...

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Trade openness and horizontal agricultural income inequality in Korea : focusing on sectoral income differences

Kim, Soo Eun; Seok, Jun Ho - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 28 (2023) 4, pp. 1580-1600

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Changes in earnings inequality in Hong Kong : 1981-2021

Wai, Liu Pak; Hin, Yan Ting - 2023

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