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20 Apr 2018, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Controlling for quality of life and income inequality (Gini), we found that better government services were related to lower religiosity among countries (Study 1) and states in the United States (Study 2). [read post]
11 Apr 2018, 1:38 pm by Daniel Shaviro
., poverty), notwithstanding that they are commonly  blended together in a single term (or in a composite measure, such as the Gini coefficient). [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 10:56 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Gini coefficient.A: Yes, as an empiricist wanted to see what was going on w/innovation system and its self-image as egalitarian and meritocratic.Saurabh Vishnubhakat, Rethinking Patent Law's Validity PowerPower used to reside ex ante in the PTO, ex post primarily in the courts; ex post power has been progressively reallocated from courts to PTO: Bayh-Dole Act, 1980, American Inventors Protection Act, 1999, America Invents Act, 2011—largely a story about expertise. [read post]
7 Feb 2018, 9:35 am by Daniel Shaviro
--A pair of delightful 2014 blog posts by economists, the first called "Inequality in the Skies" and the second "Fly Air Gini," describing how the allocation of seat space inside commercial airplanes has become more high-end skewed. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 10:30 am by Daniel Shaviro
This might be focused on high-end inequality (and separately on low-end inequality), and could take a number of different forms.I don't think that a Gini-style composite measure is at all useful here. [read post]
16 Dec 2017, 8:50 am
According to the World Income Inequality Database, the US has the highest Gini rate (measuring inequality) of all Western Countries The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality characterizes the US as “a clear and constant outlier in the child poverty league. [read post]
23 May 2017, 6:26 am by José Guillermo
Las políticas sociales y el notable crecimiento económico promedio de 4,3% anual contribuyeron a aumentar la clase media en 17%, al ritmo que se reducía la pobreza (de 38% a 23%) y la desigual distribución del ingreso (el coeficiente de Gini cayó de 0,54 a 0,47). [read post]
18 May 2017, 5:38 am by José Guillermo
Por ejemplo el  índice “Gini” que mide la desigualdad entre naciones es un cuadro estadístico, pero este índice para mí no vale ni un “Cienpies” cuando comparo el “muro que separa una exclusiva zona de Surco con la pobreza del otro lado; Comprendo perfectamente las diferencias en la medición del índice y la que he utilizado para restarle valor, la intención es hacer notar que las Estadísticas arrojan… [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 6:28 pm by Daniel Shaviro
 And also, as I noted in an earlier post, I am no longer planning to use it in my inequality and literature book, except for a couple of the best bits (relating to the Gini coefficient and to the "mapmaker's dilemma" itself) that I have imported into the literature book's chapter 1. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 9:13 am by Daniel Shaviro
., based on Gini coefficients or the level of the 80th percentile versus the 20th percentile, among alternative measures that can be used): lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, worse educational performance by children, and the frequency of teenage births, homicides, other violence, imprisonment rates, mental illness, drug and alcohol addiction, and obesity.Likewise, measures of social trust and economic mobility are negatively correlated with income inequality. [read post]
29 Mar 2016, 7:17 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Furthermore, as the baseline level of demographic and economic diversity increases, the better the baseline and change characteristics explain the change in the Gini index from 2000 to 2010. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 9:30 pm by James Rathz
For example, the United States has a Gini coefficient of 41.1. [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 1:12 am by Paul Caron
Jeffrey Harrison (Florida), Lorenz Curve, Gini Coefficient, Faculty, and Some Looney Ideas: Not too long ago a law professor came to me with a table. [read post]
14 Oct 2015, 11:00 am by Paul Caron
Following up on my previous post, Gale, Kearney & Orszag: Increasing The Top Income Tax Rate Won't Reduce Income Inequality: Washington Post, Higher Taxes on the Rich Actually Wouldn’t Lower Inequality That Much: This Gini Is Not Going Back in the Bottle, by Matt O'Brien: Up isn't down, black isn't... [read post]
6 Oct 2015, 8:42 am by Daniel Shaviro
"The problem Gini missed relates to interpretation, rather than to measurement. [read post]
25 May 2015, 4:00 am by John Gillies
More recently, Ron attended the IBM-hosted World of Watson, and generated two live blog posts entitled Cognitive Computing in Perspective, Transforming Industries, and IBM CEO Gini Rometty on IBM Watson. [read post]
21 May 2015, 10:21 am
But not all inequality curves yielding the same Gini coefficient are unequal in the same way. [read post]