Ordinal Bivariate Inequality: Concepts and Application to Child Deprivation in Mozambique

TY - JOUR

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

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.

U2 - 10.1111/roiw.12183

DO - 10.1111/roiw.12183

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0034-6586

VL - 62

SP - 559

EP - 573

JO - Review of Income and Wealth

JF - Review of Income and Wealth

IS - 3

ER -