Prices, poverty, and inequality
By: Christian Broda and David E. Weinstein.
Contributors: Weinstein, David E.
Publisher: AEI Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780844742755
Subjects: Poverty -- United States; Prices -- United States; Equality -- United States; Poor -- United States; United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-2001; United States -- Economic conditions -- 2001-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Explaining CPI biases. Substitution bias in the CPI-U. New goods and quality bias in the CPI-U. Product turnover and quality upgrades. Globalization and new goods; title: CPI biases and poverty measures. Real wages of the poor using alternative inflation measures. The impact on poverty rates; title: Prices and inequality, 1990-2005. How do consumption baskets differ by income level? China and the poor in America.