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Bootstrap inference for inequality, mobility and poverty measurement

This paper proposes the use of the bootstrap for the most commonly applied procedures in inequality, mobility and poverty measurement. In addition to simple inequality index estimation the scenarios considered are inequality difference tests for correlated data, decompositions by sub-groupor income source, decompositions of inequality changes, and mobility index and poverty index estimation. Besides ...

Measuring inequality in the presence of intra-household correlation

Cross-sectional vs. Longitudinal Views: Econometric Models of Low Income and Low Income Dynamics in Germany (unveröff. Habil.)

The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality

Who are the chronic poor? An economic analysis of chronic poverty in Germany

Measuring state dependence in individual poverty histories when there is feedback to employment status and household composition

This paper argues that the assumption of strict exogeneity, which is usually invoked in estimating models of state dependence with unobserved heterogeneity, is violated in the poverty context as important variables determining contemporaneous poverty status, in particular employment status and household composition, are likely to be influenced by past poverty outcomes. Therefore, a model of state dependence ...

Additive Decompositions with Interaction Effects

This paper proposes a comprehensive, path-independent decomposition formula of changes into ceteris paribus effects and interaction effects. The formula implies a reassessment of sequential decomposition methods that are widely used in the literature and that are restrictive in how they treat interaction effects. If counterfactual outcomes are correctly specified, it may also be viewed as a description ...

A general decomposition formula with interaction effects

This note presents a general way to decompose differences over time or between objects into the ceteris paribus effects and the interaction effects of an arbitrary number of factors. The decomposition addresses the issue of interaction effects between factors which have been neglected in the decomposition literature. It has the additional advantage of being path-independent and aggregation consistent. ...

Who is most likely to be poor in Germany

Accounting for Poverty Differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany