کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
978754 933303 2011 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Consumer expenditure distribution in India, 1983–2007: Evidence of a long Pareto tail
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات فیزیک ریاضی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Consumer expenditure distribution in India, 1983–2007: Evidence of a long Pareto tail
چکیده انگلیسی

This work presents a comprehensive study of the evolution of the expenditure distribution in India. The consumption process is theoretically modeled based on certain physical assumptions. The proposed statistical model for the expenditure distribution may follow either a double Pareto distribution or a mixture of log-normal and Pareto distribution. The goodness-of-fit tests with the Indian data, collected from the National Sample Survey Organisation Reports for the years of 1983–2007, validate the proposal of a mixture of log-normal and Pareto distribution. The relative weight of the Pareto tail has a remarkable magnitude of approximately 10%–20% of the population. Moreover, though the Pareto tail is widening over time for the rural sector only, there is no significant change in the overall inequality measurement across the entire period of study.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications - Volume 390, Issue 1, 1 January 2011, Pages 83–97
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