Quality of Weibull, Dagum and Burr XII in Estimating Wealth Distribution Across Countries and Over Time

Jacobi, Arie; Tzur, Joseph

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3560878

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“…Dagum 1 was used to model positive incomes, an exponential distribution for negative data, and a point-mass for zero incomes. Singh Maddala, on the other hand, was found to outperform Dagum for modeling wealth distributions across countries over the years 2012-2018 (Jacobi & Tzur, 2020). 14 The alternative approaches to fitting each distribution function are beyond the scope of this survey, but a brief, nonexhaustive review is provided in Appendix 2.…”

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Parametric representation of the top of income distributions: Options, historical evidence, and model selection

Hlásny

2021

Journal of Economic Surveys

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Empirical distributions of top incomes suffer from statistical problems affecting the measurement of inequality and its trend. Researchers and practitioners have been increasingly noting parametric regularities across income distributions and turning to parametric functions to approximate or supplement the observed distributions, both for descriptive purposes and for correcting distributional statistics derived from data. The proliferation of distinct branches of modeling literature has highlighted the need to compare the alternative modeling options, and develop systematic tools to discriminate between them. This paper reviews the state of methodological and empirical knowledge regarding the adoptable parametric functions, and lists references and statistical programs allowing practitioners to apply these models to microdata in household surveys and administrative registers, or grouped‐records data from national accounts statistics. Implications for modeling the distributions of other economic outcomes including consumption and wealth, and incomes below the topmost tail, are drawn. For incomes, a handful of distribution functions hold promise for modeling the top tails based on theoretical and empirical properties—namely the extreme values distributions, the generalized Pareto, the Singh–Maddala and the generalized beta type 2. Understanding these functions in relation to other commonly invoked alternatives is a contribution of this review.

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