While much of the evidence suggests that there was an increase in inequality in the United States during the 1980s, the reasons are less evident. Using the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey data, the authors find that the inequality of consumption-expenditures, as well as the inequality of other...

Review of <i>Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations</i> by Koen Vleminckx and Timothy M. Smeeding and <i>The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialized Countries</i> by Bruce Bradbury, Stephen P. Jenkins, and John Micklewright Copyright 2004 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.