One can use the Census Bureau's income statistics to show either that low-income children were considerably worse off …. Almost all these measures suggest that low-income children's material well-being rose between the early 1970s and the late … or considerably better off in 1999 than in 1969. Likewise, one can use Census statistics to show that middle-income …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …

's inequality measures and Lorenz curve comparisons, when arithmetic means are used. We consider both relative and absolute income …Most methods for the analysis of distributional change rely on the changes in the income of a particular group of … standard against a richer group, thereby capturing a notion of change in relative income, which embodies the influence of …