The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) is a comprehensive tool to assess the economic determinants of household living standards. It reflects the impacts of the changes in the labor and financial markets, government expenditures and taxes, and provisioning of nonmarket domestic services by households for their own use. The LIMEW is designed to provide an alternative picture to standard measures (e.g., household disposable income) of the level and distribution of economic well-being among the population as a whole and subgroups such as racial groups, social classes, or types of families.
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Press Release
February 10, 2022
Levy Economics Institute Receives $80,000 Grant to Explore Links between Public Spending and Economic Insecurity
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New US Consumption Gauge To Include Unpaid Work, Housing
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Research Project Report
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Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care in Kyrgyz Republic
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One-Pager No. 57
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Working Paper No. 912
August 29, 2018
The Sources and Methods Used in the Creation of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being for the United States, 1959–2013
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Public Policy Brief No. 146
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Stagnating Economic Well-Being and Unrelenting Inequality
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Press Release
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Working Paper No. 798
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Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Using the American Time Use Survey 2010, the Survey of Consumer Finances 2010, and the Annual Social and Economic Supplement 2011
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