Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93702 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/097
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal multidimensional categorical data. In our model, one population is more unequal than another when they have common arithmetic median outcomes and the first can be obtained from the second by correlation-increasing switches and/or median-preserving spreads. For the 2x2 case (with two binary indicators), we derive an operational procedure for checking ordinal inequality relations in practice. As an illustration, we apply the model to childhood poverty in Mozambique.
Subjects: 
qualitative data
multidimensional first order dominance
multi-dimensional inequality
ordinal comparison
JEL: 
D63
I32
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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