Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What did the 1990s welfare reforms accomplish? / Rebecca M. Blank
  • The take-up of social benefits / Janet Currie
  • Government programs and social outcomes : comparison of the United States with other rich nations / Timothy M. Smeeding
  • Income and welfare concentration in a historical and international perspecive / Emmanuel Saez
  • Social security and the evolution of elderly poverty / Gary V. Engelhardt and Jonathan Gruber
  • The measurement and evolution of health inequality : evidence from the U.S. Medicare population / Jonathan Skinner and Weiping Zhou
  • The socioeconomic status of black males : the increasing importance of incarceration / Steven Raphael
  • Public health and mortality : what can we learn from the past? / Dora L. Costa and Matthew E. Kahn.