Ordinal bivariate inequality: Concepts and application to child deprivation in Mozambique

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 - 2016/9/1

Y1 - 2016/9/1

N2 - This paper introduces a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal bivariate categorical data. In our model, one population is more unequal than another when they have common arithmetic median outcomes and the first can be obtained from the second by correlation-increasing switches and/or median-preserving spreads. For the canonical 2 × 2 case (with two binary indicators), we derive a simple operational procedure for checking ordinal inequality relations in practice. As an illustration, we apply the model to childhood deprivation in Mozambique.

AB - This paper introduces a concept of inequality comparisons with ordinal bivariate categorical data. In our model, one population is more unequal than another when they have common arithmetic median outcomes and the first can be obtained from the second by correlation-increasing switches and/or median-preserving spreads. For the canonical 2 × 2 case (with two binary indicators), we derive a simple operational procedure for checking ordinal inequality relations in practice. As an illustration, we apply the model to childhood deprivation in Mozambique.

M3 - Working paper

T3 - Discussion Papers on Business and Economics

BT - Ordinal bivariate inequality

PB - University of Southern Denmark

ER -