In this note, I compare stationary distributions of the linear model Xn+1=anXn+bn, where an and bn are non-negative random variables. I show that an increase of the variability of an and/or bn causes a less equal stationary distribution in terms of the Lorenz dominance. The result is useful in...

We test the relation between income and democracy during the postwar period. We employ panel estimation methods that explicitly allow for the fact that the primary measures of democracy are censored with substantial mass at the boundaries. We find that the statistically significant positive...