Modeling Income Distributions and Lorenz Curves

pt. 1. Collection of influential papers -- A new model of personal income distribution: specification and estimation / Camilo Dagum -- A function for size distribution of incomes / S.K. Singh and G.S. Maddala -- Some generalized functions for the size distribution of income / James B. McDonald -- Efficient estimation of the Lorenz curve and associated inequality measures from grouped observations / N.C. Kakwani and N. Podder -- Distribution and mobility of wealth of nations / Richard Paap and Herman K. van Dijk -- pt. 2. Survey papers on Lorenz functions and the generalizations and extensions of income distributions -- A guide to the dagum distributions / Christian Kleiber -- Pareto and generalized Pareto distributions / Barry C. Arnold -- The generalized beta distribution as a model for the distribution of income: estimation of related measures of inequality / James B. McDonald and Michael Ransom -- Parametric Lorenz curves: models and applications / Jos?? Maria Sarabia -- pt. 3. Current research -- Maximum entropy estimation of income distributions from bonferroni indices / Hang Keun Ryu -- New four- and five-parameter models for income distributions / William J. Reed and Fan Wu -- Fuzzy monetary poverty measures under a dagum income distributive hypothesis / Gianni Betti, Antonella D'Agostino and Achille Lemmi -- Modelling Lorenz curves: robust and semi-parametric issues / Frank A. Cowell and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser -- Modelling inequality with a single parameter / J.M. Henle, N.J. Horton, and S.J. Jakus -- Lorenz curves and generalised entropy inequality measures / Nicholas Rohde -- Estimating income distributions using a mixture of gamma densities / Duangkamon Chotikapanich and William E. Griffiths -- Inequality in multidimensional indicators of well-being: methodology and application to the human development index / Quentin Wodon and Shlomo Yitzhaki.