Distributional Dominance with Trimmed Data

11 Pages Posted: 12 Feb 2011

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Frank Cowell

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

University of Geneva - HEC

Date Written: August 12, 2004

Abstract

Distributional dominance criteria are commonly applied to draw welfare inferences about comparisons, but conclusions drawn from empirical implementations of dominance criteria may be influenced by data contamination.We examine a nonparametric approach to refining Lorenz-type comparisons and apply the technique to two important examples from the Luxembourg Income Study database.

Keywords: Distributional dominance, Lorenz curve, Robustness

Suggested Citation

Cowell, Frank A. and Victoria-Feser, Maria-Pia, Distributional Dominance with Trimmed Data (August 12, 2004). Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Vol. 24, pp. 291-300, 2006, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1760046

Frank A. Cowell

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) ( email )

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Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser (Contact Author)

University of Geneva - HEC ( email )

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