RESEARCH PAPER NO. 766

BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF ATKINSON INEQUALITY MEASURES

by

DUANGKAMON CHOTIKAPANICH & JOHN CREEDY

SEPTEMBER 2000

Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia

 

CONTENTS

  1. Introduction

  2. Atkinson's Measure

    3. 2.1 Asymptotic Standard Errors

    2.2 Grouped Data

  3. Posterior Distributions

    4. 3.1 Posterior Density for The pis

    3.2 Information About The uis

    3.2.1 Lognormal Distribution of Income

    3.2.2 Assumptions About Group Mean Incomes

  4. Numerical Results

  5. Conclusions

 

 

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