Jann, Ben (12 August 2015). Assessing inequality using percentile shares (University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers 13). Bern: University of Bern
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At least since Thomas Piketty's best-selling "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" (2014, Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press), percentile shares have become a popular approach for analyzing distributional inequalities. In their work on the development of top incomes, Piketty and collaborators typically report top-percentage shares, using varying percentages as thresholds (top 10%, top 1%, top 0.1%, etc.). However, analysis of percentile shares at other positions in the distribution may also be of interest. In this paper I present a new Stata command called -pshare- that estimates percentile shares from individual-level data and displays the results using histograms or stacked bar charts.
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Working Paper |
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Division/Institute: |
03 Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Institute of Sociology |
UniBE Contributor: |
Jann, Ben |
Subjects: |
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology |
Series: |
University of Bern Social Sciences Working Papers |
Publisher: |
University of Bern |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Ben Jann |
Date Deposited: |
21 Jun 2016 10:36 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 14:55 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.81523 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/81523 |
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