@article{Boisvert:123104,
      recid = {123104},
      author = {Boisvert, Richard N. and Ranney, Christine K.},
      title = {The Budgetary Implications of Reducing U.S. Income  Inequality Through Income Transfer Programs},
      address = {1991-08},
      number = {640-2016-42823},
      series = {RB 91-6},
      pages = {57},
      year = {1991},
      abstract = {In this paper, we have recognized that the relatively  constant inequality in the distribution of U.S. family  income masks dramatic changes in the structure of the  income distribution and the composition of personal  incomes. Using relatively new procedures for decomposing  the Gini measure of income inequality, we have gained a  better understanding of the relationships among changes in  the sources of income and the income distribution. This is  facilitated through the use of data collected by the Census  Bureau in the Survey of Income and Program Participation,  which is the only set of data currently available that  contains exhaustive lists of income and asset information  at the household level. The empirical results are used in  conjunction with data on transfer program expenditures to  gain some perspective on the relative costs of reducing  income inequality by increasing program benefits.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/123104},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.123104},
}