@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp12811, author={Jenkins, Stephen P.}, title={Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data}, year={2019}, month={Nov}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={12811}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp12811}, abstract={Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL curve areas. Comparisons of life satisfaction distributions for six countries reveal a substantial number of unanimous inequality rankings.}, keywords={World Values Survey;inequality;ordinal data;subjective well-being;life satisfaction}, }