This article is about statistical inference for inequality and poverty measures when income data exhibit contemporaneous dependence across members of the same household. While much empirical research is based on household survey data such as the PSID, standard methods assume that income is an...

In some situations, Lorenz ordering (LO) appears to be a disputable inequality criterion. Apparently, there exist some "paradoxical situations" where the Lorenz criterion fails to rank alternative income distributions. Two sub-orderings of LO, the absolute differentials ordering (ADO) and the...