The identity development of mixed race college students, those students whose parents are from more than one federally designated racial or ethnic category, does not appear to follow the path outlined in traditional models of racial identity development (e.g., Atkinson, Morten, & Sue, 1979; Atkinson & Sue, 1993; Cross, 1987, 1995; Helms, 1990, 1995). The models’ inclusion of a stage or status o...

This paper identifies a family of absolute consistent inequality indices using a weakly decomposable postulate suggested by Ebert. Because one member employs an Atkinson type aggregation we refer to it as the Atkinson index of consistent inequality. A second member of this family parallels the Kolm index of inequality. Two innovative features of these indices are that no specific structure is i...

K R Balachandran is Professor of Accounting at the Stern School of Business, New York University and Bin Srinidhi is Associate Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University. Growing competition from foreign companies, notably from Japan, has resulted in increased attention being paid to cost and quality issues in the US. The traditional view is that improvemen...

This paper discusses the importance of intra-generational equity to sustainable development. It outlines a number of methodologies for measuring income inequality in the economy, and presents several possible ways of incorporating the impact of distributional effects into measures of welfare in the economy. The authors highlight in particular an index developed by Atkinson (Atkinson, A.B., 1970...

M Atkinson, M Lakhanpaul, A Smyth, H Vyas, V Weston, J Sithole, V Owen, K Halliday, H Sammons, J Crane, N Guntupalli, L Walton, T Ninan, A Morjaria, T Stephenson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

‎in this paper‎, ‎we find matrix representation of a class of sixth order sturm-liouville problem (slp) with separated‎, ‎self-adjoint boundary conditions and we show that such slp have finite spectrum‎. ‎also for a given matrix eigenvalue problem $hx=lambda vx$‎, ‎where $h$ is a block tridiagonal matrix and $v$ is a block diagonal matrix‎, ‎we find a sixth order boundary value problem of atkin...