TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auerbach,Alan J.
AU  - Card,David E.
AU  - Quigley,John M.
TI  - Public policy and the income distribution
SN  - 0871540460
AV  - HC110.P63 P83 2006
U1  - 339.460973 22
PY  - 2006///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Russell Sage Foundation
KW  - Economic assistance, Domestic
KW  - United States
KW  - Economic security
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Social policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1; Introduction; Alan J. Auerbach, David Card and John M. Quigley --; Pt. I; Government transfer programs --; Ch 2; What did the 1990s welfare reforms accomplish?; Rebecca M. Blank --; Ch. 3; The take-up of social benefits; Janet Currie --; Ch. 4; Government programs and social outcomes : comparison of the United States with other rich nations; Timothy M. Smeeding --; Pt. II; Taxation and social insurance --; Ch. 5; Income and wealth concentration in a historical and international perspective; Emmanuel Saez --; Ch. 6; Social security and the evolution of elderly poverty; Gary V. Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber --; Ch. 7; The measurement and evolution of health inequality : evidence from the U.S. Medicare population; Jonathan Skinner and Weiping Zhou --; Pt. III; Government policies and outcomes --; Ch. 8; The socioeconomic status of black males : the increasing importance of incarceration; Steven Raphael --; Ch. 9; Public health and mortality : what can we learn from the past?; Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn
N2  - "Public Policy and the Income Distribution tackles many of the most difficult and intriguing questions about how government intervention - or lack thereof - has affected the incomes of everyday Americans. The twentieth century was remarkable in the extent to which advances in public policy helped improve the economic well being of Americans. Synthesizing existing knowledge on the effectiveness of public policy and contributing valuable new research, Public Policy and the Income Distribution examines public policy's successes, and points out the areas in which progress remains to be made."--BOOK JACKET
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