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Statistical Properties of Generalized Gini Coefficient with Application to Health Inequality Measurement
- Source :
- Social Indicators Research. 87:249-258
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2007.
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Abstract
- In this article, we report statistical properties of two classes of generalized Gini coefficients (G1 and G2). The theoretical results were assessed via Monte Carlo simulations. Further, we used G1 and G2 on life expectancy to measure health inequalities among the provinces of China and the states of the United States. For China, the results indicated that there was statistically significant health inequality by both G1 and G2. However, for the US, the results showed that there was significant health inequality by G1 but no statistical significance was found in health inequality by G2. Overall, from our study, China has higher health inequality than the United States.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Sociology and Political Science
Inequality
Gini coefficient
Public health
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General Social Sciences
Statistical model
Health equity
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Statistical significance
Statistics
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Econometrics
medicine
Life expectancy
China
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Mathematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730921 and 03038300
- Volume :
- 87
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Indicators Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........7ec1b5bbadedcf55598e2523787cc400