A COMPARISON OF ALTERNATIVE FUNCTIONAL FORMS FOR THE LORENZ CURVE

被引：44

作者：

CHOTIKAPANICH, D

机构：

[1] Department of Economics, University of New England, Armidale

来源：

ECONOMICS LETTERS | 1993年 / 41卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1016/0165-1765(93)90186-G

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

A new functional form for the Lorenz curve is proposed and compared with two curves from the existing literature. In an application to Thai data the proposed function outperforms the others in terms of the Gini coefficient estimation, but is not as good for predicting expenditure shares.

引用

页码：129 / 138

页数：10

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[1]

CHOTIKAPANICH D, 1992, 63 U NEW ENGL DEP EC

[2] FUNCTIONAL FORM FOR ESTIMATING THE LORENZ CURVE [J].