Burkhauser, Richard V.; Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
A substantial part of the inequality literature in the United States has focused on yearly levels and trends in income … investigate their impact on levels and trends in measured inequality. We show that ignoring the value of health insurance coverage … inequality and its upward trend. As an application of our fuller measure of income, we consider how two provisions of current …