TY  - JOUR
AU  - Blinder,Alan S.
TI  - The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 488
PY  - 1981
Y2  - March 1981
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0488
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0488.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alan S. Blinder
Department of Economics
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1021
Tel: 609/258-3358
Fax: 609/258-5398
E-Mail: blinder@princeton.edu
M1  - published as Alan S. Blinder, Irving Kristol, Wilbur J. Cohen. "The Level and Distribution of Economic Well-Being," in Martin Feldstein, ed., "The American Economy in Transition" University of Chicago Press (1980)

AB  - 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.
ER  -