Tile paper proposes a new, and a much simpler, way to calculate the Gini coefficient. The existence of a relationship between linear (concave or convex) Pen's income parade, and specific values of the Gini coefficient is derived, c~ ) 1997 Elsevier Science S.A.

This study explored the association between income inequality and use of dental services and the role that investment in health care plays in explaining that association. We pooled individual-level data from 223,299 adults, 18 years or older, in 66 countries, who participated in the World Health Organization (WHO) World Health Surveys with country-level data from different international sources...

introduction: inequality is prevalent in all sectors, particularly in distribution of and access to resources in the health sector. the aim of current study was to investigate the distribution of physicians and hospital beds in iran in 2001, 2006 and 2011. methods: this retrospective, cross-sectional study evaluated the distribution of physicians and hospital beds in 2001, 2006 and 2011 using g...

Various authors have proposed using the jackknife technique to approximate a standard error for the Gini coefficient. It has also been shown that the Gini measure can be obtained simply from an artificial OLS regression based on the data and their ranks. Accordingly, we show that obtaining an exact analytical expression for the standard error is a trivial matter. In addition, by extending the r...

Majority voting and social evaluation functions are the main alternatives proposed in the literature for aggregatingindividual preferences. Despite these being very different, this papershows that the ranking of income distributions, symmetric under the same transformation, by S-Gini consistent social evaluation functions and majority voting coincide if and only if the inequality index under co...

equitable distribution of health system resources has been a serious challenge for long ago among the health policy makers. conducted studies have mostly ever had emphasis on equality rather than equity. in this paper we have attempted to examine both equality and equity in resources distribution.this is an applied and descriptive study in which we plotted lorenz and concentration curves to des...

Jansen, H.G.P., 1992. Gini's coefficient of mean difference as a measure of adoption speed: theoretical issues and empirical evidence from India. Agric. Econ., 7: 351-369. This paper represents a variant on the empirical analysis of technological adoption by Griliches. It follows up on previous research regarding the potential of the Gini coefficient of mean difference as a distribution-free me...