An Introduction to National Income and Income Analysis

Introduction: Income Distribution and Economics

National Income and the Environment

There is widespread recognition that we need to revise our methods of measuring national income to incorporate better the impact of economic activity on environmental assets. Our aim here is to investigate alternative concepts of national income in a dynamic economy, one a generalization of Hicksian income and the other a generalization of the welfare economics concept of income as the value of...

National Poverty Center Income Volatility and Low‐income Support Programs Income Volatility and Low-income Support Programs

This paper was delivered at a National Poverty Center conference. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Poverty Center or any sponsoring agency.

Malapportionment and Income Inequality: A Cross-National Analysis

with level of PT is the average gap between the first and second most popular parties. Regardless of electoral system, which has little association with it, this is the party system variable that is most closely linked with level of PT. It is this form of party system competitiveness that best fosters PT. In terms of elite strategy, grand coalitions very obviously provide the most effective way...

Children and Household Income Packages: A Cross-National Analysis

How does a household's economic situation vary with the number of children in it? The most recent papers in the cross-national literature on the effects of children on the economic status of households have had either of two preoccupations. One is child poverty, the topic of a recent major conference (Koen Vleminckx and Timothy Smeeding, 2001). The other concerns the impact of children on the e...