Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its
predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular …

While the GDP was intended by its originators as a measure of production, the absence of a
measure of welfare in the national accounts has led to widespread misuse of the GDP to …

This book owes much to other people. There are, first and foremost, my coauthors in the
fields of poverty and income distribution, with whom it has been a great pleasure to work …

Using new transaction data, I find considerable deviations from consumption smoothing in
response to large, regular, predetermined, and salient payments from the Alaska Permanent …

We examine changes in consumption and income inequality between 2000 and 2011.
During the most recent recession, unemployment rose and asset values declined sharply …

We investigated changes in supermarket access in Chicago between 2007 and 2014,
spanning The Great Recession, which we hypothesized worsened local food inequity. We …

Official income inequality statistics indicate a sharp rise in inequality over the past five
decades. These statistics do not accurately reflect inequality because income is poorly …

We propose to analyze the relationship between inequality and economic development by
means of an Agent Based-Stock Flow Consistent model where workers have been …

We present evidence on the level of and trend in inequality from 1985-2010 in the United
States, using disposable income and consumption for a sample of individuals from the …

We do not need to and should not have to choose amongst income, consumption, or wealth
as the superior measure of well‐being. All three individually and jointly determine well …