This paper evaluates two survey innovations introduced in the HRS that aimed to improve income measurement. The innovations are (1) the integration of questions for income and wealth and (2) matching the periodicity over which income questions are asked to the typical way such income is...

This article specifies a two-equation model determining jointly two endogenous variables, public school expenditures per student and public school enrollment per capita, as functions of 16 exogenous variables, and estimates them for a sample of 79 urban areas using two-stage least squares....

By 1992, pensions and retiree health insurance represented one quarter of the wealth of families on the verge of retirement. Between 1969 and 1992, abstracting from the effects of changes in wages and years of covered work on pension benefit amounts, changes in pension coverage and plan...