pshare: new package to compute and graph percentile shares available from SSC

[Ben Jann]

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new package called -pshare- is available from SSC (released on July 3, updated on August 14).

-pshare- computes percentile shares of a distribution (from individual-level data). Percentile shares are often used in inequality research to study the distribution of income or wealth. -pshare- also provides tools for graphing the results.

A working paper with examples and methods is available from: https://ideas.repec.org/p/bss/wpaper/13.html

To install the package, type

. ssc install pshare

Note that -moremata- is required by -pshare-. To install -moremata- type

. ssc install moremata
. mata mata mlib index

Best,
ben