Draw Lorenz curves and calculate the Gini coefficient and the coefficient of variation for the income distributions
Question:
Draw Lorenz curves and calculate the Gini coefficient and the coefficient of variation for the income distributions (a)–(f). In each situation, the first set of numbers represents the various incomes, whereas the second set of numbers represents the number of people earning each of these incomes:
(a) (100, 200, 300, 400); (50, 25, 75, 25)
(b) (200, 400, 600, 800); (50, 25, 75, 25)
(c) (200, 400, 600, 800); (100, 50,150, 50)
(d) (200, 400, 600, 800); (125, 25,125, 50)
(e) (100, 200, 300, 400); (50,15, 95,15)
(f) (100, 200, 300, 400), (50, 35, 55, 35).
[Try to understand the implicit transfers that move you from one income distribution to the other (except for the first three, which should turn out to have the same inequality — why?).]
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