Henri Theil

Henri Theil (born October 13, 1924 in Amsterdam , † August 20, 2000 in Jacksonville (Florida) ) was a Dutch econometrician .

Theil received his academic training at the University of Amsterdam . He was the successor of Jan Tinbergen at the Erasmus University Rotterdam . He later taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Florida .

Henri Theil became known for the Theil index , a measure of entropy for indicating the uneven distribution of income and wealth, for example. In addition to the Gini coefficient , the Theil index is one of the most frequently used measures of inequality.

In 1966 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

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↑ Cowell, Frank A. (2002, 2003): Theil, Inequality and the Structure of Income Distribution (PDF; 320 kB) , London School of Economics and Political Sciences (with references to the “class of Kolm indices”, that is Measures for unequal distributions such as the Theil index )

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Literature by and about Henri Theil in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Theil, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch econometrician
DATE OF BIRTH	October 13, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH	August 20, 2000
Place of death	Jacksonville (Florida)

[TheilKolm-1] Cowell, Frank A. (2002, 2003): Theil, Inequality and the Structure of Income Distribution (PDF; 320 kB) , London School of Economics and Political Sciences (with references to the “class of Kolm indices”, that is Measures for unequal distributions such as the Theil index )