The effect of measurement error on the estimated shape of the world distribution of income |
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| Authors: | Christopher F. Parmeter |
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| Affiliation: | aVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 216 Hutcheson Hall, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA |
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| Abstract: | This note examines the robustness that two modes exist in the world's density of per capita income. Our results suggest that this bimodal feature is robust and are arrived at using recently developed nonparametric deconvolution techniques. |
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| Keywords: | Bimodality Unknown variance Deconvolution |
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