An alternative functional form for estimating the Lorenz curve |
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Authors: | Nicholas Rohde |
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Affiliation: | aSchool of Economics, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072, Australia |
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Abstract: | We propose a simple single parameter functional form for the Lorenz curve. The new specification is fitted to existing data sets and is shown to provide a better fit than existing single parameter Lorenz curves for the given data. |
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Keywords: | Gini coefficient Lorenz curve Parametric form |
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