Statistical Inference for Stochastic Dominance and for the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality
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- 1 January 1998
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Abstract
We derive the asymptotic sampling distribution of various estimators frequently used to order distributions in terms of poverty, welfare and inequality. This inKeywords
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