The Young Person's Guide to the Theil Index: Suggesting Intuitive Interpretations and Exploring Analytical Applications
Preprint
- 1 January 2000
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Growing interest in inequality has generated an outpouring of scholarly research and has brought many discussions on the subject into the public realm. SurprisiKeywords
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