TY - UNPB

T1 - Ordinal bivariate inequality

T2 - Concepts and application to child deprivation in Mozambique

AU - Sonne-Schmidt, Christoffer Scavenius

AU - Tarp, Finn

AU - Østerdal, Lars Peter Raahave

N1 - JEL classification: D63, I32, O15

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - This paper introduces a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinalbivariate categorical data. In our model, one population is moreunequal than another when they have common arithmetic median outcomesand the first can be obtained from the second by correlationincreasingswitches and/or median-preserving spreads. For the canonical2x2 case (with two binary indicators), we derive a simple operationalprocedure for checking ordinal inequality relations in practice.As an illustration, we apply the model to childhood deprivation inMozambique.

AB - This paper introduces a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinalbivariate categorical data. In our model, one population is moreunequal than another when they have common arithmetic median outcomesand the first can be obtained from the second by correlationincreasingswitches and/or median-preserving spreads. For the canonical2x2 case (with two binary indicators), we derive a simple operationalprocedure for checking ordinal inequality relations in practice.As an illustration, we apply the model to childhood deprivation inMozambique.

M3 - Working paper

T3 - Discussion Papers on Business and Economics

BT - Ordinal bivariate inequality

PB - University of Southern Denmark

ER -