Empirical Essays on Poverty, Inequality, and Social Welfare

This thesis consists of three empirical chapters related to distributional outcomes, such as poverty and inequality, in three different contexts. Chapter 1 outlines a class of statistical procedures that permit testing of a broad range of multidimensional stochastic dominance hypotheses. We apply th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCaig, Brian
Other Authors: Brandt, Loren
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19061