A note on measures of distance between income distributions

DOI10.1016/0022-0531(87)90012-3zbMath0631.90015OpenAlexW1997320366MaRDI QIDQ1095021

Bhaskar Dutta, Satya R. Chakravarty

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0531(87)90012-3

zbMATH Keywords

income distributionssocial evaluation functionmeasurement of inequalitystatistical distance functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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Cites Work

• Measures of distance between income distributions
• Inequality Measures between Income Distributions with Applications
• On the Distance between Income Distributions

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