เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	Atkinson Index	Shapley Decomposition of Inequality
สาขาวิชา	Sociology	เศรษฐศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1970	2013
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Anthony Barnes Atkinson	Anthony Shorrocks (working paper 1999; published 2013)
ประเภท	Welfare-based, parameterized inequality index	Axiomatic decomposition procedure
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Atkinson, A. B. (1970). On the measurement of inequality. Journal of Economic Theory, 2(3), 244–263.	Shorrocks, A. F. (2013). Decomposition procedures for distributional analysis: a unified framework based on the Shapley value. Journal of Economic Inequality, 11(1), 99–126.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Atkinson inequality measure, Atkinson's A, welfare-based inequality index	Shapley Decomposition, Shorrocks Shapley Decomposition, Factor Decomposition of Inequality, Shapley Value Distributional Decomposition
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	4
สรุป	The Atkinson index is a welfare-based measure of inequality that incorporates an explicit, analyst-chosen parameter for how much society dislikes inequality. Introduced by Anthony Atkinson in 1970, it asks what fraction of total income could be discarded, under an equal distribution, while leaving social welfare unchanged — making the ethical judgement behind any inequality comparison transparent rather than hidden.	The Shapley decomposition, formalized for distributional analysis by Anthony Shorrocks (in a widely circulated 1999 working paper, published in 2013), is a general procedure for attributing an inequality or poverty statistic to its contributing factors — income sources, population subgroups, or determinants. It borrows the Shapley value from cooperative game theory: each factor's contribution is its average marginal effect on the indicator across all possible orders in which factors could be eliminated. The result is an exact, symmetric, residual-free decomposition that applies to any indicator, even those (like the Gini) that have no natural analytic decomposition of their own.