This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Lorenz curve is widely used as a convenient graphical device to represent the size distribution of income and wealth. In the present paper ...
We argue the change in individuals’ Lorenz ordinates—their positions in the Lorenz curve—is informative about economic ...
The Review of Economics and Statistics is an 84-year old general journal of applied (especially quantitative) economics. Edited at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, The Review has ...
Income inequality and disparity in resource distribution have drawn a lot of attention recently in the United States. Today, we’ll investigate a variation on the theme, exploring the distribution of a ...
If you want to be remembered in economics, get yourself a curve. There’s the Lorenz curve, the Laffer curve, the Kuznets curve, and, probably most famous, the Phillips curve. Phillips was A.W.