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Lorenz Dominance and the Variance of Logarithms Author info | Abstract | Publisher info | Download info | Related research | Statistics Ok, Efe A.
Foster, James
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The variance of logarithms is a widely used inequality measure which is well known to disagree with the Lorenz criterion. Up to now, the extent and likelihood of this inconsistency were thought to be vanishingly small. We find that this view is mistaken : the extent of the disgreement can be extremely large; the likelihood is far from negligible.
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