Modelling Income Distributions over Space and Time: 1985-2010

Minimum distance estimation of parametric Lorenz curves based on grouped data

G Hajargasht, WE Griffiths

2020-01-01

The Lorenz curve, introduced more than 100 years ago, remains as one of the main tools for analysis of inequality. International i..

Using the GB2 Income Distribution

Duangkamon Chotikapanich, William E Griffiths, Gholamreza Hajargasht, Wasana Karunarathne, DS Prasada Rao

2018-06-01

To use the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) for the analysis of income and other positively skewed distribut..

Bayesian inference for health inequality and welfare using qualitative data

David Gunawan, William E Griffiths, Duangkamon Chotikapanich

2018-01-01

We show how to use Bayesian inference to compare two ordinal categorical distributions commonly occurring with data on self-report..

On GMM estimation of distributions from grouped data

W Griffiths, G Hajargasht

2015-01-01

For estimating distributions from grouped data, setting up moment conditions in terms of group shares and group means leads to an ..

Global Inequality; Levels and Trends, 1993–2005: How Sensitive are These to the Choice of PPPs and Real Income Measures?

D Warner, DSP Rao, WE Griffiths, D Chotikapanich

2014-11-01

Increasing global interaction between economies over the last few decades has led to growing interest on the implications of globa..