Digitale Medien
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Bulletin of economic research
47 (1995), S. 0
ISSN:
1467-8586
Quelle:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Thema:
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Notizen:
The paper develops simple statistical test procedures for generalized decomposable poverty measures. It is shown that the estimates of the decomposable poverty indices, including the overall and various subgroup poverty indices, have (asymptotic) jointly normal distributions. The full variance-covariance structure is derived and can be estimated consistently without prior specification of the population density underlying the sample data. The (overall/decomposed) poverty indices can thus be used as tools for statistical inference instead of simply as descriptive statistics. We illustrate the test procedure by examining the contributions of whites and non-whites to total US poverty in 1975 and 1985.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8586.1995.tb00619.x
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