Contents
Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. Government Transfer Programs
Chapter 2. What Did the 1990s Welfare Reforms Accomplish?
Chapter 3. The Take-Up of Social Benefits
Chapter 4. Government Programs and Social Outcomes: Comparison of the United States with Other Rich Nations
Part II. Taxation and Social Insurance
Chapter 5. Income and Wealth Concentration in a Historical and International Perspective
Chapter 6. Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty
Chapter 7. The Measurement and Evolution of Health Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Medicare Population
Part III. Government Policies and Outcomes
Chapter 8. The Socioeconomic Status of Black Males: The Increasing Importance of Incarceration
Chapter 9. Public Health and Mortality: What Can We Learn from the Past?
Index