Gini coefficient

There is little doubt public education in the United States is under intense scrutiny from the American public in recent years. In Mississippi, years of negative student outcomes have created a great deal of negative publicity for the state’s public schools. It is important for educators, whether at the district level, research level, or policymaking level, to continue to study available data to identify areas of weakness with the realm of education and work collaboratively to remedy those…

A total of four hypotheses were examined using the following variables: feelings of tension and anxiety before and after watching a video in which a news story covered a student going to a college campus with the intent of harming people, perceived threat while watching the video, perceived threat while watching similar news coverages, the number of hours a day spent consuming news, and participant gender. First, to test the hypothesis that feelings of tension and anxiety will be higher after…

related. To find out exactly how related they were I ran a correlation function. The result was very convincing at 0.695. The high correlation shows a strong relationship between winning games and yards leading to scores percentages. At 48.3%, the coefficient of determination explains for almost half of the win percentage. These results are very convincing and…

GENDER When comparing gender, the connection between conscientiousness and academic performance is fully facilitated by effort. Females have higher levels of conscientiousness and academic performance when compared to males (Berings, De Feyter, Van den Broeck, Brebels, & Proost, 2013). Therefore, females study more in comparison to their male peers and can generally be described as being more organised, disciplined and motivated to achieve. These vital traits of conscientiousness result in high…

Abstract The aim of the study is to investigate the relationship between extraversion and self-esteem. A total of seventy-one undergraduate psychology students from a private university were recruited for this study. The participants were asked to fill up two questionnaires in regards to extraversion and self-esteem which were the Big Five Inventory (BFI) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. The relationship between the two variables was statistically analyzed using the Pearson’s r correlational…

After data collection, the study utilized Pearson’s Correlation Coefficients to measure the collected data and determine the following correlation in support of the hypothesis: there is a positive correlation between poor bison management practices in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, poor elk management practices in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Montana, and the spread of brucellosis in both wildlife and livestock during the past two decades; preventing bison from full population…

The song "16 Tons" by Johnny Cash tells the story of a poor coal miner who could be considered part of the percentage of Americans who are permanently in poverty– a concept we discussed in class. I make this assumption because Johnny sings that after lifting 16 tons of coal in one day, the miner is simply a day older and “deeper in debt”, and that the miner owes his “soul to the company store”. This suggests that the miners’ debt is growing each day– perhaps a product of debt that is accruing…

The decomposition of income inequality by various income sources allows us to find out whether forest source plays any important role to improve income distributional pattern among these forest fringe households. The decomposition of income inequality by income source is given by table 5 and figure 1. The income distribution is similar within rich and medium households compared to medium household having different estimates. The question is; does forest income have any role to alleviate…

The Lorenz curve is a graphical device used to represent distributional inequality of income (econweb). Econweb further defines Gini coefficient as a “numerical measure of inequality based on the Lorenz curve. Lorenz curve The Lorenz curve is arrived at by adding cumulative quantiles from lowest income to the highest that is, the lowest 20% plus the next 20% to arrive at the lowest 40%. Rittenberg and Tregathen further articulate,” Since the share of income receive by all the quintiles will…

unobserved heterogeneity effects, respectively; and uit is the disturbance term. Understanding the Gini coefficient :- The Gini index or Gini coefficient is a statistical measure of distribution developed by the Italian statistician Corrado Gini in 1912. It is often used as a gauge of economic inequality, measuring income distribution or, less commonly, wealth distribution among a population. The coefficient ranges from 0 (or 0%) to 1 (or 100%), with 0 representing perfect equality and 1…