Do Spatial Price Indices Reshuffle the Italian Income Distribution?

Does regional cost-of-living reshuffle Italian income distribution?

This paper examines how spatial price differentials affect income distribution in Italy. The distribution of household income is “reshuffled” after controlling for the purchasing power of households residents in different regions, but only when housing price variations are included in the PPP index. Poor households living in Southern Italy alleviate their relative condition, but concentration o...

Temporal and spatial distribution of extreme precipitation indices over the lake Urmia Basin, Iran

DO CURRENT INCOME AND ANNUAL INCOME MEASURES PROVIDE DIFFERENT PICTURES OF BRITAIN’S INCOME DISTRIBUTION? by

Most UK surveys, including those used each year to derive the official UK income distribution statistics (‘Households Below Average Income’), provide measures of current household income rather than annual household income, which is the measure used in most other countries. Using British Household Panel Survey data, we examine whether estimates of Britain’s income distribution and its trends ar...

Local Quantile House Price Indices

Locally weighted quantile regressions allow the coefficients of hedonic house price functions to vary over space. Using data on all house sales in Cook County, Illinois, for 20002011, I show how the full distribution of appreciation rates changed over time in small geographic areas. The estimates reveal significant spatial variation in appreciation rates both geographically and across the distr...

The Existence of Perfect Price Indices

This paper shows that the distribution of preferences among agents in a market can justify the aggregation of prices into group-price indices.