The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being

Alan S. Blinder

NBER Working Paper No. 488 (Also Reprint No. r0154)
Issued in March 1981
NBER Program(s):   EFG

This paper summarizes and critically evaluates what is known about postwar trends in both the level and distribution of economic well-being. Although certain non-income aspects of well-being are considered, the primary focus is on the level and inequality of income. Considerable attention is paid to recent controversies over the effects of transfers in kind and changing life-cycle income patterns on the overall trend in income inequality.

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Published:

• Blinder, Alan S. "The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being." The American Economy in Transition, edited by Martin Feldstein, pp. 415-499. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. ,
• The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being, Alan S. Blinder, Irving Kristol, Wilbur J. Cohen, in The American Economy in Transition (1980), University of Chicago Press
  

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