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Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by various Household Attributes

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  • Maasoumi, Esfandiar

    () (Department of Economics, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 75275-0496, USA)

  • Almas Heshmati

    () (The United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research, Katajanokanlaituri 6B, FIN-00160 Helsinki, Finland)

Abstract

We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati (2000). They do not impose the Least Favorable Case (LFC) of the composite null hypotheses of SD orders. This is in contrast to simulation and bootstrap-based techniques that do so, resulting in tests that are not asymptotically similar or unbiased. Our approach is also different from the subsampling technique of Linton et al (2003) who obtain critical values for these tests under very general sampling schemes. We offer partial control for many individual/family specific attributes, such as age, gender, education, number of children, work and marital status, by comparing group cells. This avoids having to specify and estimate models of dependence of incomes on these attributes, but lacks the multiple controls that is the promise of such techniques. We find a surprising number of strong rankings, both between groups and over time, and in both gross income and ‘disposable’ incomes.

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Paper provided by Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics in its series Departmental Working Papers with number 0509.

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Length: 61 pages
Date of creation: 19 May 2003
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Handle: RePEc:smu:ecowpa:0509

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Keywords: Stochastic Dominance; Bootstrap; Income Distribution; Testing; PSID; Gender; education; age; marital status;

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Cited by:
  1. Russell Davidson & Jean-Yves Duclos, 2006. "Testing For Restricted Stochastic Dominance," Departmental Working Papers 2006-20, McGill University, Department of Economics.
  2. Heshmati, Almas, 2004. "A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality," IZA Discussion Papers 1221, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  3. Heshmati, Almas, 2004. "Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality," IZA Discussion Papers 1263, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  4. Ozkan Eren & Daniel Millimet, 2007. "Time to learn? The organizational structure of schools and student achievement," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 32(2), pages 301-332, May.
  5. Heshmati, Almas, 2004. "Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 1307, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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