The Welfare Approach to Measuring Inequality

Abstract

The work on this chapter was done while Joseph Schwartz was a graduate student at Harvard University (with support from National Science Foundation Grant SOC76-24394, Harrison White, principal investigator) and Christopher Winship was a research associate at the Institute for Research on Poverty. This research was supported in part by funds granted to the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. The authors would like to thank Anthony Atkinson, ChristopherJencks, Robert Mare, Michael Rothschild, Harrison White, Charles Wilson, Robert Fernandez, Jane Kulik, and reviewers for their useful comments and suggestions. Any errors, however, are the responsibility of the authors, who contributed equally to the chapter.