Introduction / Martin David and Timothy Smeeding -- Happiness, affluence, and altruism in the postwar period / Frank Levy ; comment, Frank Rainwater -- The impact of changes in income and family composition on subjective measures of well-being / Arie Kapteyn, Sara van de Geer, and Huib van de Stadt ; comment, Harold W. Watts -- Estimating changes in well-being across life : a realized versus comprehensive income approach / Richard V. Burkhauser, J.S. Butler, and James T. Wilkinson ; comment, Lee A. Lillard -- Wealth, realized income, and the measure of well-being / Eugene Steuerle ; comment, James D. Smith -- Inflation vulnerability, income, and wealth of the elderly, 1969-1979 / Micahel D. Hurd and John B. Shoven ; comment, Sheldon Danziger -- Horizontal and vertical equity characteristics of the federal individual income tax, 1966-1977 / Marcus C. Berliant and Robert P. Strauss ; comment, T.N. Srinivasan -- Measuring the benefits of income maintenance programs / David Betson and Jacques van der Gaag ; comment, F. Thomas Juster -- A comparison of measures of horizontal inequity / Robert Plotnick ; comment, Edward M. Gramlich -- Rewards for continued work : the economic incentives for postponing retirement / Olivia S. Mitchell and Gary S. Fields ; comment, Joseph F. Quinn -- Income, inequality, and uncertainty : differences between the disabled and nondisabled / Robert H. Haveman and Barbara L. Wolfe ; comment, Dan Usher -- Household wealth and health insurance as protection against medical risks / Pamela J. Farley and Gail R. Wilensky ; comment, Joseph P. Newhouse -- The valuation of environmental risks using hedonic wage models / V. Kerry Smith and Carol C.S. Gilbert ; comment, T.H. Tietenberg -- Interfamily transfers and income redistribution / Donald Cox and Fredric Raines ; comment, Paul L. Menchik -- Economic consequences of marital instability / Greg J. Duncan and Saul D. Hoffman ; comment, Isabel V. Sawhill -- Variations in the economic well-being of divorced women and their children : the role of child support income / Andrea H. Beller and John W. Graham ; comment, Irwin Garfinkel
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