Exploring and Correcting the Bias in the Estimation of the Gini Measure of Inequality

JF Muñoz, PJ Moya-Fernández… - … Methods & Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The Gini index is probably the most commonly used indicator to measure inequality. For
continuous distributions, the Gini index can be computed using several equivalent …

Computing the Gini index: A note

E Furman, Y Kye, J Su - Economics Letters, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring inequality: What is the Gini coefficient?

J Hasell, M Roser - Our World in Data, 2023 - ourworldindata.org
It is typically used as a measure of income inequality, but it can be used to measure the
inequality of any distribution–such as the distribution of wealth, or even life expectancy. 1It …

A note on the asymptotic equivalence of jackknife and linearization variance estimation for the Gini coefficient

YG Berger - 2008 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
The Gini coefficient has proved valuable as a measure of income inequality. In cross-
sectional studies of the Gini coefficient, information about the accuracy of its estimate is …

Gini Coefficient

IY Sun - The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Gini coefficient is the most commonly used measure of inequality. The coefficient is
named after the Italian statistician and demographer Corrado Gini (1884–1965), who …

The Gini unbound: analyzing class inequality with model-based clustering

TF Liao - Advances on income inequality and concentration …, 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
Economic inequality has long captured researchers' interest, and the most widely used
measure of inequality is the Gini index (or Gini inequality ratio) pioneered by the Italian …

A note on computing the Gini inequality measure with weighted data

J Creedy - 2015 - ir.wgtn.ac.nz
A Note on Computing the Gini Inequality Measure with Weighted Data Page 1 A Note on
Computing the Gini Inequality Measure with Weighted Data John Creedy WORKING PAPER …

A simple way to calculate the Gini coefficient for grouped as well as ungrouped data

E Abounoori, P McCloughan - Applied Economics Letters, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
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 properties of the extended Gini measures of variability and inequality

S Yitzhaki, E Schechtman - Available at SSRN 815564, 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
The aim of this paper is to survey and investigate the properties of the extended Gini family
of inequality measures. The paper surveys the alternative ways of spelling the extended Gini …

On the negative bias of the Gini coefficient due to grouping

MJ Warrens - Journal of Classification, 2018 - Springer
The Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion that is commonly used as a
measure of inequality of income, wealth or opportunity. Empirical research has shown that …