Joint hypothesis tests for multidimensional inequality indices

Ramses H Abul Naga; Yajie Shen; Hong Il Yoo

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2016.02.010

Joint hypothesis tests for multidimensional inequality indices

Ramses H Abul Naga
, Yajie Shen
, Hong Il Yoo

Economics

London School of Economics and Political Science

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Abstract

An inequality index over p dimensions of well-being is decomposable by attributes if it can expressed as a function of p unidimensional inequality indices and a measure of association between the various dimensions of well-being. We exploit this decomposition framework to derive joint hypothesis tests regarding the sources of multidimensional inequality, and present Monte Carlo evidence on their finite sample behavior.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	138-142
Number of pages	5
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	141
Early online date	27 Feb 2016
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2016.02.010
Publication status	Published - Apr 2016

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Acknowledgments
This work has been undertaken with the support of the A*MIDEX project (n ∘ ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02) funded by the “Investissements d’Avenir” French Government program, managed by the French National Research Agency (ANR). We are grateful to Julian Williams, Editor Badi H. Baltagi and an anonymous referee for helpful comments. We are responsible for any errors.

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multidimensional inequality indices
large sample distributions
joint hypothesis tests
bootstrap

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