高等教育不均衡思想与经济发展的相关分析--基于华东地区高等教育数据

从空间分布和经济发展角度,采用统计学、基尼系数和相关分析等方法对华东地区的高等教育进行了研究。提高教育意识,科学地反思教育发展,可以更好地服务经济。统计分析显示高等教育资源的空间分布差异明显,江浙沪发展较好,安徽和江西相对落后。基尼系数分析发现每个省的主要教育资源集中在少数几个城市,导致高等教育的空间分布十分不均衡。讨论了引起教育资源空间不均衡的原因。发现了各省市不同学科招生的不均衡度与经济发展存在相关关系。挖掘了不同学科学生比例与经济发展的关系,发现工学和管理学是与当地经济发展成正相关的学科。最后提出了如何保证高等教育促进当地经济发展的对策。     

关于我国居民收入分配差距问题的分析与对策

近年来我国居民收入分配差距日益扩大,已成为社会普遍关注的话题。本文对引起居民收入分配差距扩大的主要原因进行了分析,提出了缩小我国居民收入差距的建议。     

多元主体环境责任协同水平的地区差异与动态演进

基于中国30个省、自治区、直辖市（由于数据原因暂未包含西藏和港澳台地区）,构建多元主体环境责任协同水平指标体系,运用复合系统协同度模型,定量测算多元主体环境责任协同水平,并利用Dagum基尼系数和核密度估计方法分析其空间格局和动态演进过程。研究结果表明：中国各地多元主体环境责任协同水平整体偏低,呈现出逐年上升的趋势;环境责任协同水平空间分布的总体差异呈波动扩大趋势,地区间差距是总体差异的主要空间来源;环境责任协同水平的地区差异呈上升态势,东部、中部和西部三个地区的环境责任协同水平呈两极分化态势。     

Averaging Lorenz curves

A large number of functional forms has been suggested in the literature for estimating Lorenz curves that describe the relationship between income and population shares. The traditional way of overcoming functional-form uncertainty when estimating a Lorenz curve is to choose the function that best fits the data in some sense. In this paper we describe an alternative approach for accommodating functional-form uncertainty, namely, how to use Bayesian model averaging to average the alternative functional forms. In this averaging process, the different Lorenz curves are weighted by their posterior probabilities of being correct. Unlike a strategy of picking the best-fitting function, Bayesian model averaging gives posterior standard deviations that reflect the functional-form uncertainty. Building on our earlier work (Chotikapanich and Griffiths, 2002), we construct likelihood functions using the Dirichlet distribution and estimate a number of Lorenz functions for Australian income units. Prior information is formulated in terms of the Gini coefficient and the income shares of the poorest 10% and poorest 90% of the population. Posterior density functions for these quantities are derived for each Lorenz function and are averaged over all the Lorenz functions.     

中国城乡收入分布动态演进及经验检验

 本文利用“中国营养和健康调查”家庭平均收入的模块数据,采用核密度估计、累积分布函数、洛伦茨曲线等方法刻画我国城乡居民收入分布的动态演进,结果表明,大多数家庭都分享了我国经济快速增长带来的成果,其中高收入阶层比低收入阶层更多地分享了经济成果,城市居民比农村居民更多地分享了经济成果。进一步地,非参数假设检验和相对偏差估计结果表明,N. C. Kakwani的三参数函数和简易公式的基尼系数估计精度较高,广义Logistic分布函数是估计城乡居民收入分布的可行选择。     

中国人口老龄化的地区差异分析

本文基于1990—2013年省际面板数据,以老年人口比重作为老龄化指标,采用基尼系数分解方法和Kernel密度估计方法,实证分析了中国人口老龄化的地区差异及其动态演进过程。研究结果表明：中国人口老龄化在地区分布上呈现出明显的非均衡特征;基尼系数测算及其分解结果表明,人口老龄化的地区差异总体上呈现波动缩小趋势;2004年以前,地区间差距和超变密度交替成为总体地区差异的主要来源,2004年以后,超变密度成为总体差异的主要来源。 Kernel密度估计显示,老龄化程度不断加深,地区差异呈波动趋势。     

影响我国居民收入分配差距因素的实证分析

世界银行2005年发展报告显示,中国的基尼系数按由低到高排名第85位,2007年达到了0.48,超过了国际上0.4的警戒线。本文对中国1994—2007年的相关统计资料进行实证分析,以验证税收、转移支付和教育与收入分配差距之间遵从的演变路径,探讨了城乡转移支付对收入分配差距的影响力度,得出结论:教育和税收能缩小收入分配差距,但影响有限;现行的社会保障制度并没有实现制度上的公平,农村社保制度对收入差距的负面影响远大于城市社保制度。     

Contrasting the Gini and Zenga indices of economic inequality

The current financial turbulence in Europe inspires and perhaps requires researchers to rethink how to measure incomes, wealth, and other parameters of interest to policy-makers and others. The noticeable increase in disparities between less and more fortunate individuals suggests that measures based upon comparing the incomes of less fortunate with the mean of the entire population may not be adequate. The classical Gini and related indices of economic inequality, however, are based exactly on such comparisons. It is because of this reason that in this paper we explore and contrast the classical Gini index with a new Zenga index, the latter being based on comparisons of the means of less and more fortunate sub-populations, irrespectively of the threshold that might be used to delineate the two sub-populations. The empirical part of the paper is based on the 2001 wave of the European Community Household Panel data set provided by EuroStat. Even though sample sizes appear to be large, we supplement the estimated Gini and Zenga indices with measures of variability in the form of normal, t-bootstrap, and bootstrap bias-corrected and accelerated confidence intervals.     

Forecasting Accuracy of Alternative Techniques: A Comparison of U.S. Macroeconomic Forecasts

This article introduces and discusses a new measure of the relative economic affluence (REA) between income distributions with different means. The REA measure D is applied to the U.S. white and black household income distributions of 1967 and 1979. The measure D shows that the REA of the white households with respect to the black households decreased from 1967 to 1979. This conclusion contrasts with those obtained by applications of distance or quasi-distance functions. It is shown in this study that REA measures and distance functions address different and relevant issues. An REA measure deals with the relation “more affluent than” and defines a partial strict ordering over the set of pairs of income distributions—that is, the relation is asymmetric and transitive—whereas a distance function accounts for the dissimilarity between distributions without imposing an ordering relation and hence fulfills the symmetry property.     

基尼系数和泰尔熵指标的分解分析比较——以云南省17个少数民族地区的收入差距为例

基尼系数和泰尔熵指标都是衡量不平等性的重要指标,特别是它们的分解能进一步对不平等性进行因素分析。本文阐述了这两种指标对不平等性的刻画,并对它们的分解作了进一步的分析,最后结合同一组数据进行了实证比较分析。