Education
University of Wisconsin–Madison. University of Iowa.
University of Wisconsin–Madison. University of Iowa.
He published this paper when he was a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His doctorate (1906) was on "The Economic Theory of Railroad Rates" and made no reference to perhaps his most famous paper. He was of German ancestry, his father having been born in Essen, Germany in 1841.
He was active in both publishing and teaching and was at various times employed by the United States. Census Bureau, the United States. Bureau of Railway Economics, the United States. Bureau of Statistics and the United States. Interstate Commerce Commission.
The term Lorenz curve seems first to have been used in 1912 in a textbook The Elements of Statistical Method.