Income Nonresponse and Inequality Measurement

dc.contributor.author	Paraje, Guillermo
dc.contributor.author	Weeks, Melvyn
dc.date.accessioned	2014-08-26T03:57:38Z
dc.date.available	2014-08-26T03:57:38Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.citation	Revista de Análisis Económico 25(2): 2010, p. 193-221	es_CL
dc.identifier.uri	http://repositorio.uahurtado.cl/handle/11242/1910
dc.description	This paper analyses the effects that income nonresponse has on certain well-known inequality coefficients (e.g. Gini, Theil and Atkinson indexes). A number of statistical methods have been developed to impute missing values of incomes for nonrespondents. By simulating several patterns of income nonresponse on actual sub-samples of the Argentinean household survey, this essay analyses the effects that different correction methods produce on a set of inequality coefficients. It is proved that methods often used to correct for nonresponse can introduce important biases on inequality coefficients if the patterns of missingness assumed by such methods do not coincide with the actual pattern.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	es_CL
dc.publisher	ILADES; Georgetown University; Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios	es_CL
dc.rights	Attribution 3.0 Unported	es_CL
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/	es_CL
dc.subject.lcsh	Desigualdades económicas	es_CL
dc.title	Income Nonresponse and Inequality Measurement	es_CL
dc.type	Artículo	es_CL

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