Cowell, Frank 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3778-2152 and Jenkins, Stephen P. ORCID: 0000-0002-8305-9774
(1995)
How much inequality can we explain?: a methodology and an application to the United States.
The Economic Journal, 105 (429).
pp. 421-430.
ISSN 0013-0133
Abstract
We develop two simple measures of how much inequality is explained by individual population characteristics or groups of characteristics, analogous to R2 in regression analysis. We investigate the measures’ empirical implementation using several alternative theoretically consistent approaches to inequality decomposition. Results are illustrated using US PSID income data.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28... |
| Additional Information: | © 1995 Royal Economic Society |
| Divisions: | Economic History Social Policy STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| JEL classification: | C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General D - Microeconomics > D6 - Welfare Economics > D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2025 05:36 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1064 |
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