Advances in Econometrics, Income Distribution and Scientific Methodology: Essays in Honor of Camilo Dagum

Front Matter....Pages I-XI
About the Contribution of Econometrics to the Advancement of Knowledge: The Macroeconomic Relevance of Microeconomic Data....Pages 1-14
Two Aspects of the Methodology of Modeling Deterministic Processes and Evaluation....Pages 15-25
An Extension of the Gauss-Markov Theorem for Mixed Linear Regression Models with Non-Stationary Stochastic Parameters....Pages 27-39
Computation in Macroeconometric Model- Building: Some Historical Aspects....Pages 41-60
Measuring Informativeness of Data by Entropy and Variance....Pages 61-77
Significance of the Nonuniqueness of Neoclassical Direct Utility Functions Especially When they are Empirically Confirmed....Pages 79-86
Welfare Disparity Among Subgroups of Population: The Method of Analysis with an Application....Pages 87-101
Measuring Welfare Changes and the Excess Burden of Taxation....Pages 103-169
Decomposing the Redistributive Effect of Taxes: New Measures of Vertical Equity and Inequity....Pages 171-208
Income Transformation and Income Inequality....Pages 209-232
A Note on the Gini Measure for Discrete Distributions....Pages 233-240
Distributional Preferences and the Extended Gini Measure of Inequality....Pages 241-267
On Some Implications of Dagum’s Interpretation of the Decomposition of the Gini Index by Population Subgroups....Pages 269-291
The End of Science?....Pages 293-300
Statistical Inference and Inductive Prevision....Pages 301-320
The Scientific Training....Pages 321-330
A Family of Multidimensional Poverty Measures....Pages 331-344
Independence and Changes in the Size Distribution of Income....Pages 345-358
Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Dominance Using Generalized Lorenz Curves....Pages 359-364
Back Matter....Pages 365-388