Henri Theil

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name = Henri Theil

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birth_date = October 13, 1924
death_date = 2000
birth_place = Amsterdam
nationality = Dutch
field = Economics
work_institutions = University of Chicago
University of Florida
alma_mater = University of Amsterdam
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Henri Theil (October 13, 1924, Amsterdam - 2000) was a a Dutch econometrician. He graduated from the University of Amsterdam. He was the successor of Jan Tinbergen at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Later he taught in Chicago and at the University of Florida. He is most famous for the Theil index, a measure of entropy, which belongs to the class of Kolm-Indices and is used as an inequity indicator in econometricsCowell, Frank A. (2002, 2003): " [http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/darp/darp67.pdf Theil, Inequality and the Structure of Income Distribution] ", London School of Economics and Political Sciences (with reference to the „“)] .

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NAME = Theil, Henri
SHORT DESCRIPTION = Econometrician
DATE OF BIRTH = 1924-10-31
PLACE OF BIRTH = Amsterdam, Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH = 2000
PLACE OF DEATH = Saint Augustine, Florida