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Chapter 6 Influence Functions for Policy Impact Analysis

In: Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber

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  • B. Essama-Nssah
  • Peter J. Lambert

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Social evaluation functions used in policy impact analysis can be viewed as real-valued functionals of the underlying outcome distributions. Influence functions may be used to identify the sources of variation in social outcomes in terms of individual or household characteristics. This chapter sets forth in clear terms the definition of the influence function and recentered influence function, and catalogs these functions for a wide range of distributional statistics, including measures of central tendency, inequality, and poverty and also measures of the degree of pro-poorness of a shock- or policy-induced change in income levels.

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  • B. Essama-Nssah & Peter J. Lambert, 2012. "Chapter 6 Influence Functions for Policy Impact Analysis," Research on Economic Inequality, in: Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber, pages 135-159, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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    DOI: 10.1108/S1049-2585(2012)0000020009
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    1. Doan, Tinh & Ha, Van & Tran, Tuyen & Yang, Judy, 2023. "Dynamics of wage inequality over the prolonged economic transformation: The case of Vietnam," Economic Analysis and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 78(C), pages 816-834.

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