Re: st: RE: Calculating Gini

[Edwin Leuven <e.leuven@uva.nl>]

i've written a small egen extension that calculates gini coefs

you would call it as follows:

. egen ginigr = gini(income), by(state district) weight(weight)

and you can get it as follows

. net from http://www1.fee.uva.nl/scholar/mdw/leuven/stata
. net install ineqegen
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