A micro-macro linkage in the measurement of inequality: Another look at the Gini coefficient

Kunihiro Kimura

doi:10.1007/bf01098727

Sufficientarianism and the Measurement of Inequality

Moral Philosophy and Politics ◽

10.1515/mopp-2017-0057 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 147-173

Author(s):

Rudolf Schuessler

Keyword(s):

Gini Coefficient ◽

Economic Inequality ◽

Oecd Countries ◽

Income Level ◽

The Gini Coefficient ◽

Theories Of Justice ◽

Measurement Of Inequality

Abstract What impact should sufficientarianism have on the measurement of inequality? Like other theories of justice, sufficientarianism influences how economic inequality is conceived. For the purpose of measurement, its standards of justice can be approximated by income-based thresholds of sufficiency. At which income level could a threshold of having enough be pegged in OECD countries? What would it imply for standard indicators of inequality, such as decile comparisons of cumulated income, income spreads, or the Gini coefficient? This paper suggests some answers to these questions, showing that sufficientarian ideas could make a difference with respect to the measurement of inequality in a society.

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Measurement of Inequality and Compression of Mortality in India for 4 Decades: 1970–2015

Innovation in Aging ◽

10.1093/geroni/igaa057.222 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽

pp. 68-68

Author(s):

Mukesh Parmar

Keyword(s):

Standard Deviation ◽

Gini Coefficient ◽

Age At Death ◽

Registration System ◽

Death Rates ◽

Male And Female ◽

Inequality Measures ◽

Sample Registration System ◽

Dispersion Measures ◽

Measurement Of Inequality

Abstract The studies relating to measurement of compression of Mortality in India is scarce. Most of the studies relating to mortality in India are focused on either life expectancy, or adult, and child mortality. We have used methods suggested by Kannisto (2000) and Canudos (2008) to measure the compression of mortality phenomenon for India for four decades viz. 1970-2015. Dispersion measures like simple mean, median, modal age at death; and some complicated measures like life disparity, standard deviation above mode, standard deviation in highest quartile, Interquartile range, Gini coefficient, AID and C-family were calculated for India from 1970-2015. We used the age specific death rates from abridged Life tables given by Sample Registration System published by Govt. of India. Our results show that inequality in mortality is decreasing in general but the gap between male and female is increasing. There was an average of three years difference in mean and modal age at death between male females in 2011-15. Overall, mean, median and modal age at death has increased in four decades but other inequality measures like Gini coefficient, AID, Standard deviation (SD) and coefficient of variation has decreased in four decades in India. C50 indicator, which indicates that 50 percent of deaths are happening in that age interval, declined from 26 years to 20 years for males and 27 years to 17 years for females, thus indicating the rate of compression of mortality is higher for females than males in India during 1970-75 till 2011-15.

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Using the Gini coefficient to characterize the shape of computational chemistry error distributions

Theoretical Chemistry Accounts ◽

10.1007/s00214-021-02725-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 140 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Pascal Pernot ◽

Andreas Savin

Keyword(s):

Computational Chemistry ◽

Gini Coefficient ◽

The Gini Coefficient ◽

Error Distributions

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Why We Should Use the Gini Coefficient to Assess Punctuated Equilibrium Theory

Political Analysis ◽

10.1017/pan.2021.25 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Constantin Kaplaner ◽

Yves Steinebach

Keyword(s):

Policy Change ◽

Gini Coefficient ◽

Policy Making ◽

Punctuated Equilibrium ◽

Equilibrium Theory ◽

Punctuated Equilibrium Theory ◽

The Gini Coefficient ◽

Precise Measure

Abstract Punctuated Equilibrium Theory posits that policy-making is generally characterized by long periods of stability that are interrupted by short periods of fundamental policy change. The literature converged on the measure of kurtosis and L-kurtosis to assess these change patterns. In this letter, we critically discuss these measures and propose the Gini coefficient as a (1) comparable, but (2) more intuitive, and (3) more precise measure of “punctuated” change patterns.

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