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On the Measurement of Inequality

Anthony B. Atkinson
- 01 Sep 1970 - 
- Vol. 2, Iss: 3, pp 244-263
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In this paper, the problem of comparing two frequency distributions f(u) of an attribute y which for convenience I shall refer to as income is defined as a risk in the theory of decision-making under uncertainty.
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This article is published in Journal of Economic Theory.The article was published on 1970-09-01. It has received 5002 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income inequality metrics & Income distribution.

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Social Choice Theory: A Re-Examination

Amartya Sen
- 01 Jan 1977 - 
TL;DR: A recent survey of social choice theory can be found in this article, where a categorization of interpersonal aggregation problems into four distinct types that seem to require varying treatment but typically do not receive it is discussed.
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Improving Aggregate Recommendation Diversity Using Ranking-Based Techniques

TL;DR: A number of item ranking techniques that can generate substantially more diverse recommendations across all users while maintaining comparable levels of recommendation accuracy are introduced and explored.
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Bootstrap Tests for Distributional Treatment Effects in Instrumental Variable Models

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the problem of assessing the distributional consequences of a treatment on some outcome variable of interest when treatment intake is (possibly) nonrandomized, but there is a binary-instrument available for the researcher.
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Handbook on Poverty and Inequality

TL;DR: The handbook on poverty and inequality as discussed by the authors provides tools to measure, describe, monitor, evaluate, and analyze poverty and provides background materials for designing poverty reduction strategies for researchers and policy analysts involved in poverty research and policy making.
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Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large

John W. Pratt
- 01 Jan 1964 - 
TL;DR: In this article, a measure of risk aversion in the small, the risk premium or insurance premium for an arbitrary risk, and a natural concept of decreasing risk aversion are discussed and related to one another.
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The Measurement of the Inequality of Incomes

Hugh Dalton
- 01 Sep 1920 - 
TL;DR: JSTOR as discussed by the authors is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship, which is used to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources.
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The Efficiency Analysis of Choices Involving Risk

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the first step of the decision-making process of an individual decision maker among alternative risky ventures is presented, in terms of a single dimension such as money, both for the utility functions and for the probability distributions.