The Paternity of an Index.

Hirschman, A. O. (1964). The Paternity of an Index. American Economic Review, 761-762.

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Journal article

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Primary research

Year

1964

Pages

761-762

Link

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1818582

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• Dependency Distribution Concentration
  • The same scalar — a concentration measure such as the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, top-k share, or Gini of provider weights

    This sourceEstablishes the Herfindahl-Hirschman index H = Σwᵢ² as the standard concentration scalar (ranging from 1/n for a spread distribution to 1 for full concentration).

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