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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Working Paper No. 556
January 29, 2009
Long-Term Trends in the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW), United States, 1959–2004
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Working Paper No. 535
May 13, 2008
Statistical Matching Using Propensity Scores
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Book Series
October 15, 2007
Government Spending on the Elderly
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Research Project Report
April 30, 2007
How Well Off Are America’s Elderly?
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Book Series
December 27, 2006
International Perspectives on Household Wealth
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Research Project Report
December 04, 2006
Wealth and Economic Inequality
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Working Paper No. 466
August 08, 2006
Net Government Expenditures and the Economic Well-Being of the Elderly in the United States, 1989–2001
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Book Series
July 16, 2006
The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation
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Working Paper No. 447
May 03, 2006
Household Wealth and the Measurement of Economic Well-Being in the United States
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Research Project Report
May 01, 2005
Interim Report
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Research Project Report
March 01, 2005
Economic Well-Being in US Regions and the Red and Blue States
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Research Project Report
December 01, 2004
How Much Does Public Consumption Matter for Well-Being?