EQUIVALENCE SCALES, WELL‐BEING, INEQUALITY, AND POVERTY: SENSITIVITY ESTIMATES ACROSS TEN COUNTRIES USING THE LUXEMBOURG INCOME STUDY (LIS) DATABASE

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 115-142

  Buhmann, Brigitte ^a   Rainwater, Lee ^b   Schmaus, Guenther ^a   Smeeding, Timothy M ^c  

^a LIS ^*

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84984032299     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1988.tb00564.x     Document Type: Article

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3. The Relative Economic Status of One Parent Families in Six Major Industrialized Countries
4. Family Size and the Distribution of Real Per Capita Income
5. Children and the Elderly in the U.S.
6. Introduction to LIS
7. Levels of Well‐Being and Poverty Among the Elderly and Children in the U.S. and Other Major Countries
8. Money Income and Poverty Status of Families and Persons in the United States: 1986
9. True Household Equivalence Scales and Characteristics of the Poor in the United States
10. Poverty in Europe
11. The Isoprop Index: An Approach to the Determination of Differential Poverty Income Thresholds