Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21414
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 763
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the calculations for the i.i.d. case when compared to previous derivations in the literature. Both cases are illustrated with examples from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and the British Household Panel Survey.
Subjects: 
inequality
statistical inference
complex surveys
JEL: 
C14
D31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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