Notas sobre Descomposiciones Microeconométricas: Un Análisis Antropométrico

Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. (2008): Notas sobre Descomposiciones Microeconométricas: Un Análisis Antropométrico.

Abstract

This essay presents a theoretic approximation on the microeconometric decompositions analysis by incorporating anthropometric variables, and apprainsing theirs presumable effects on the income distribution. A new body-mass-index based equivalent scale is proposed toward more accurate individual income's representativeness. By assuming an hypothetical empiric case, interesting interpretations would be arriving on the possible interactions among anthropometry and inequality which were accounted through a set of parameter's interpretations on whose meaning could be useful at the time by developing policies to cope with eventual not desired anthropometric effects on income distribution.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Notes on Microeconometric Decompositions: An Anthropometric Analysis
• Language: Spanish
• Keywords: Inequality; Decompositions; Anthropometry; Equivalence Scales; Parameter Interpretation; Discrimination
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D3 - Distribution > D31 - Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I12 - Health Behavior; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General > C15 - Statistical Simulation Methods: General

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