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Type: IFS Working Papers Authors: Ian Crawford ISSN: 1742-0415
JEL classification: C14, D30 Keywords: Social welfare, stochastic dominance, nonparametric statistical
Published in: IFS, Working paper
This paper make straightforward extensions to Anderson's (1996) nonparametric statistical tests of stochastic dominance criteria to bivariate distributions. These test are applied to a time series of cross-section datasets on household level total expenditure and non labour market time in the UK.
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