Measures of Inequality

1978/12/01 by Paul D. Allison · 1,133 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Demographic economics #Economics #Income, Poverty, and Inequality #Inequality #Mathematics #Psychology #Social inequality #Sociology

paper · doi:10.2307/2094626

published in American Sociological Review 43(6), 865 (SAGE Publishing)

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