This paper examines income inequality across nine countries using the Luxembourg Income Study data set. New statistical tests and comparability of data provide an exceptionally clear picture of relative income inequality. Only 4 comparisons out of a possible 108 cannot be ranked. In most cases,...

The relative effectiveness of the U.S. Food Stamp Program in reducing the incidence and depth of poverty is compared at a number of poverty lines across time. The analysis is based upon an extension of dominance methods for ordering poverty, recently developed statistical inference procedures,...