Gordon is a Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto and a Research Associate of the IFS. His research interests include applied economics, empirical issues in poverty inequality and polarization.
Education
PhD Applied Econometrics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1980
MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1974
BA Economics, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1972
Following the work of Gini, Dagum and Tukey, this paper extends Gini’s Transvariation measure for comparing two distributions to the simultaneous comparison of many distributions.
We develop a nonparametric empirical method for deriving welfare rankings for a social planner based on data envelopment, which avoids the need to specify a weighting scheme.
