Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of
their distributions. We study the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their …

Devices such as canes and wheelchairs, used to assist locomotion, have remained mostly
unchanged for centuries. Recent advances in robotics have the potential to develop smart …

Farmers facing a durable change in climate conditions may autonomously adapt through the
intensive margin, the extensive margin, or through the adoption of new practices. Based on …

The shift‐share analysis (SSA) of regional employment growth disparities aims at
disentangling the effects of regional differences in industry mix and industrial …

Surface roughness measurement is an integral part of the characterization of microtextured
surfaces. Multiple established software packages offer the calculation of roughness …

This study analyzes the measurement of income and wealth inequalities in samples with
negative values. The Gini coefficient can exceed one when negative values represent a …

The impacts of global warming vary across regions. This paper studies the distributional
implications of global warming impacts on household energy use for heating and cooling …

In this paper two innovative procedures for the decomposition of the Pietra index are
proposed. The first one allows the decomposition by sources, while the second one provides …

This study uses a unique panel dataset on micro data with 786 households over 3 years
(2014, 2016 and 2018) at the community level in Tanzania, assessing the contribution of …

In this paper we present the results of experiments and computational analyses of trading in
decentralized markets with asymmetric information. We consider three trading …