The article presents information on a convenient method of computing the Gini Index and its
standard error. The Gini index is an important measure of income inequality with widely …

We will show that the regression approach to estimating the standard error of the Gini index
can produce incorrect results as it does not account for the correlations introduced in the …

This note constructs a simple two class example in which the Gini index is held constant
while the size of the rich and poor populations change, in order to illustrate how very …

Numerous methods have been proposed for calculating the Gini coefficient, the most widely
used statistical measure of income inequality. The Milanovic (Bulletin of Economic …

The Gini index of inequality has been extensively studied by economists in a variety of
contexts with the notions of wealth and income distribution serving as two primary examples …

Several generalizations of the classical Gini index, placing smaller or greater weights on
various portions of income distribution, have been proposed by a number of authors. For …

618 S. YITZHAKI where MF (v) is the absolut ranging from 0 to oo. The index of equality has
the following properties:(a) if the distribution is concentrated at one point, u, then 3 (v)= p for …

The article presents a simple formula to compute the Gini index for a single variable such as
income and also for the various elements that compose it when individual data points are …

A NOTE ON THE CALCULATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE GIN1 INDEX Robert I.
LERMAN Shlomo YITZHAKI 1. Introduction Interest in the Page 1 Economics Letters 15 (1984) …

SEVERAL that the Gini authors inequality have recently index can shown be that the Gini
inequality index can be rewritten as a simple linear transforma-tion of the covariance …