The tools to be used and other choices to be made when measuring socioeconomic
inequalities with rank-dependent inequality indices have recently been debated in this …

The happiness literature empirically shows that individuals are happier not necessarily if
they live in a country with high economic growth, but most important if they live in cohesive …

Inequality and its analysis have received increasing attention in the literature over the last
decades, which has led to the development of a large number of inequality measurement …

This chapter reviews the basic conceptual foundations for the measurement of polarization,
the origins of those foundations, how polarization is distinct from inequality and other ways …

Because self-reported health status [SRHS] is an ordered response variable, inequality
measurement for SRHS data requires a numerical scale for converting individual responses …

We present a class of decomposable inequality indices for ordinal data (eg self-reported
health survey). It is characterized by well-known inequality axioms (eg scale invariance) and …

We establish an equivalence between three criteria for comparing distributions of an ordinal
variable taking finitely many values. The first criterion is the possibility of going from one …

This paper introduces a new approach to rank and measure socioeconomic inequality in
health. A novel feature of the approach is the use of an income-health matrix that relates …

Non‐intersection of appropriately defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a
unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica …

In many instances, individual health statuses are self-reported on several ordinal scales.
The ordinal nature of the data creates some challenging problems in the measurement of …