Estimating Lorenz and concentration curves

• Jann, Ben ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Bern

     University of Bern

     Bern/Berne/Berna, Suiza

     
• Localización: The Stata journal, ISSN 1536-867X, Vol. 16, Nº. 4, 2016, págs. 837-866
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Lorenz and concentration curves are widely used tools in inequality research. In this article, I present a new command, lorenz, that estimates Lorenz and concentration curves from individual-level data and, optionally, displays the results in a graph. The lorenz command supports relative, generalized, absolute, unnormalized, custom-normalized Lorenz, and concentration curves. It also provides tools for computing contrasts between different subpopulations or outcome variables. lorenz fully supports variance estimation for complex samples.