Improving measures of economic well-being
By: edited by Marilyn Moon, Eugene Smolensky.
Contributors: Moon, Marilyn.; Smolensky, Eugene.
Series: Institute for Research on Poverty monograph series
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Poverty -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Income distribution -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Poverty -- Research -- United States -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Watts, H. W. An economic definition of poverty.; title: Weisbrod, B. A. and W. L. Hansen. An income-net worth approach to measuring economic welfare.; title: Garfinkel, I. and R. Haveman. Earnings capacity, economic status, and poverty.; title: Mirer, T. W. Aspects of the variability of family income.; title: Moon, M. The economic welfare of the aged and income security programs.; title: Lampman, R. J. Transfer approaches to distribution policy.; title: Smolensky, E. et al. In-kind transfers and the size distribution of income.; title: Smeeding, T. M. The economic well being of low income households.; title: Watts, H. W. The iso-prop index.; title: Palmer, J. L. and M. C. Barth. The distributional effects of inflation and higher unemployment.