Deprivation dominance is a useful concept for evaluating poverty profiles (poverty rate, gap, and inequality among the poor) across regions and/or over time. In this paper, we develop a distribution-free test for deprivation dominance---an one-sided joint test for the differences between two...

A generalized Lorenz (GL) curve differs from a Lorenz curve in that the former is a rescaled version of the latter. A GL curve represents the relationship between the average income computed from a cumulative percentage of the population and the corresponding cumulative percentage. GL dominance...

We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...