MEASURING THE IMPACT OF VALUING HEALTH INSURANCE ON LEVELS AND TRENDS IN INEQUALITY AND HOW THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT OF 2010 COULD AFFECT THEM.
A substantial part of the U.S. inequality literature focuses on yearly levels and trends in pre-tax, post-transfer cash income and its distribution over time and finds that median income appears to be stagnating, with income growth primarily coming at higher income levels. When we use data from the...
| Publicado en: | Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 779 - 795 |
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