This paper reviews the theory and application of the decomposition methods commonly
used to measure the impact of spatial location on income inequality. It establishes some new …

The Gini coefficient or index is perhaps one of the most used indicators of social and
economic conditions. From its first proposal in English in 1921 to the present, a large …

摘要基尼系数是被最广泛应用的社会经济指标之一. 它从CEFC 年在英文的文献中出现到现在,
许多学者写作并发表了大量关于基尼系数的学术文献. 通览这些浩瀚的学术文献无疑是费时的 …

How do we measure happiness? Focusing on subjective measures as a proxy for welfare
and well-being, this book finds ways to do that. Subjective measures have been used by …

This paper examines preferences toward particular classes of lottery pairs. We show how
such concepts as prudence and temperance can be fully characterized by a preference …

The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics presents a unified conceptual framework for
analyzing taxation--the first to be systematically developed in several decades. An original …

Compiled to meet the needs of students and professionals in economics, finance,
accountancy and business, this wide-ranging, international Dictionary is for everyone who …

This paper makes a systematic comparison of four approaches to multidimensional poverty
analysis based respectively on the theory of fuzzy sets, information theory, efficiency …

Healthcare disparity is, to a large extent, ascribable to the uneven distribution of high-quality
healthcare resources, which remains insufficiently examined, largely due to data …

The authors present an alternative representation of risk measures originally defined in
terms of expectations with respect to distorted probabilities. They also show that the right-tail …