How much inequality can we explain?: a methodology and an application to the United States

Cowell, Frank

(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

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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
Departments	Economic History Social Policy STICERD Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Date Deposited	27 Apr 2007
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/1064

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