About  the software DAD

   DAD is designed to facilitate the analysis and the comparisons of social welfare, inequality, poverty and equity across distributions of standard living. Its features include the estimation of a large number of indices and curves that are useful for distributive comparisons as well as the provision of asymptotic standard errors to enable statistical inference.

DAD: A Software for Distributive Analysis / Analyse Distributive  This programme is freely distributed and freely available. Please acknowledge its use by quoting it as  Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar and Carl Fortin, "DAD: a software for Distributive Analysis / Analyse Distributive", MIMAP programme, International Development Research Centre, Government of Canada, and CIRPÉE, Université Laval.

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• Learn DAD through exercises and answers
• Technical notes

• Duclos J.-Y. and Araar A. (2006), Poverty and Equity Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD
• Araar A. and Duclos J-Y. (2006), DAD: A Software for Poverty and Distributive Analysis.
• Massimo Baldini et Christian Toft .Poverty and Equity. Measurement and Analysis. Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar et Carl Fortin., La revue Économie publique Public economics , 18-19 2006/1-2.
• Qi Zhang (2003), DAD, an innovative tool for income distribution analysis.