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Decomposing Inequality and Obtaining Marginal Effects

Year: 2006

Type: article

Abstract: This article describes a user-written command, descogini, that decomposes the Gini coefficient by income source and allows the calculation of the impact that a marginal change in a particular income source will have on inequality. descogini can be used with bootstrap to obtain standard errors and confidence intervals.

Source: The Stata Journal Promoting communications on statistics and Stata

DOI: 10.1177/1536867x0600600107

Author: Alejandro López-Feldman

Institution: University of California, Davis

Language: English

Topic: Income, Poverty, and Inequality

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, No poverty

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2156335136

FWCI: 3.483

Cites: 5

Cited by: 112

Related to: 10