The Gini Indices of Inequality

The most frequently used index of inequality is perhaps the Gini coefficient attributed to Gini(1912) and analysed, among others, by Dalton(1920), Atkinson(1970), Newbery (1970), Kats(1972), Sheshinski(1972), Dasgupta, Sen and Starrett(1973), Rothschild and Stiglitz(1973), Sen(1973, 1974, 1976, 1976a, 1978), Chipman(1974), Pyatt(1976), Graaff (1977), Hagerbaumer(1977), Blackorby and Donaldson(1978, 1980), Michal(1978), Dorfman(1979), Schwartz and Winship(1979), Takayama(1979), Yitzhaki(1979, 1980, 1982, 1982a, 1983), Donaldson and Weymark(1980, 1983), Hey and Lambert(1980), Kakwani (1980, 1980b, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1988), Amiel(1981), Berrebi and Silber(1981, 1985, 1987, 1987a, 1987b), Weymark(1981), Nygård and Sandstrom(1982), Thon(1982), Zagier (1983), Chakravarty and Chakraborty(1984), Lerman and Yitzhaki(1984, 1985), Shalit and Yitzhaki(1984), Foster(1985), Lambert(1985), Trannoy(1986), Basu(1987), Chakravarty(1988), Ebert(1988, 1988a) and Bossert(1989a).