Robustness Properties of Inequality Measures

DOI10.2307/2171925zbMath0861.90029OpenAlexW2024373130MaRDI QIDQ4715546

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, Frank A. Cowell

Publication date: 18 November 1996

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2171925

zbMATH Keywords

simulationinfluence functionincome distributioncontaminated datainequality measuresdirect nonparametric estimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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