Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-Being
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
- Publish date: 10/01/1985
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Prefatory Note Acknowledgments Introduction Martin David and Timothy Smeeding 1. Happiness, Affluence, and Altruism in the Postwar Period Frank Levy Comment: Lee Rainwater 2. The Impact of Changes in Income and Family Composition on Subjective Measures of Well-Being Arie Kapteyn, Sara van de Geer, and Huib van de Stadt Comment: Harold W. Watts 3. Estimating Changes in Well-Being across Life: A Realized versus Comprehensive Income Approach Richard V. Burkhauser, J. S. Butler, and James T. Wilkinson Comment: Lee A. Lillard 4. Wealth, Realized Income, and the Measure of Well-Being Eugene Steuerle Comment: James D. Smith 5. Inflation Vulnerability, Income, and Wealth of the Elderly, 1969-1979 Michael D. Hurd and John B. Shoven Comment: Sheldon Danziger 6. The Horizontal and Vertical Equity Characteristics of the Federal Individual Income Tax, 1966-1977 Marcus C. Berliant and Robert P. Strauss Comment: T. N. Srinivasan 7. Measuring the Benefits of Income Maintenance Programs David Betson and Jacques van der Gaag Comment: F. Thomas Juster 8. A Comparison of Measures of Horizontal Inequity Robert Plotnick Comment: Edward M. Gramlich 9. Rewards for Continued Work: The Economic Incentives for Postponing Retirement Olivia S. Mitchell and Gary S. Fields Comment: Joseph F. Quinn 10. Income, Inequality, and Uncertainty: Differences between the Disabled and Nondisabled Robert H. Haveman and Barbara L. Wolfe Comment: Dan Usher 11. Household Wealth and Health Insurance as Protection against Medical Risks Pamela J. Farley and Gail R. Wilensky Comment: Joseph P. Newhouse 12. The Valuation of Environmental Risks Using Hedonic Wage Models V. Kerry Smith and Carol C. S. Gilbert Comment: T. H. Tietenberg 13. Interfamily Transfers and Income Redistribution Donald Cox and Fredric Raines Comment: Paul L. Menchik 14. Economic Consequences of Marital Instability Greg J. Duncan and Saul D. Hoffman Comment: Isabel V. Sawhill 15. Variations in the Economic Well-Being of Divorced Women and Their Children: The Role of Child Support Income Andrea H. Beller and John W. Graham Comment: Irwin Garfinkel List of Contributors Author Index Subject Index
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