A comparison of alternative functional forms for the Lorenz curve

Duangkamon Chotikapanich

doi:10.1016/0165-1765(93)90186-G

A comparison of alternative functional forms for the Lorenz curve

Duangkamon Chotikapanich

Department of Economics

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Abstract

A new functional form for the Lorenz curve is proposed and compared with two curves from the existing literature. In an application to Thai data the proposed function outperforms the others in terms of the Gini coefficient estimation, but is not as good for predicting expenditure shares.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	129-138
Number of pages	10
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	41
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-1765(93)90186-G
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 1993

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