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Research on Economic Inequality
Inequality and Opportunity: Papers from the Second ECINEQ Society Meeting
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John Bishop
John Bishop
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Buhong Zheng
Buhong Zheng
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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16
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1016/S1049-2585(2008)16
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978-1-84855-135-0
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978-1-84855-134-3
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1049-2585
Publication date:
2008
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Measuring inequality with ordinal data: a note

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Buhong Zheng
Buhong Zheng
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Buhong Zheng
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2008
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    2008
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2008

This note formally investigates the applicability of stochastic dominance (Lorenz dominance) to ordinal data such as self-reported health status. We confirm that for ordinal data distributions, stochastic dominance has limited applicability in ranking social welfare, while it has no applicability in ranking inequality.

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