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.
Associated Programs
Associated Scholars
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Ajit Zacharias
Thomas Masterson
Aashima Sinha
Fernando Rios-Avila43 Related Publications
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Working Paper No.535
13 May 2008
Statistical Matching Using Propensity Scores
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Book Series
15 October 2007
Government Spending on the Elderly
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Research Project Report
30 April 2007
How Well Off Are America’s Elderly?
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Book Series
27 December 2006
International Perspectives on Household Wealth
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Research Project Report
04 December 2006
Wealth and Economic Inequality
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Working Paper No.466
08 August 2006
Net Government Expenditures and the Economic Well-Being of the Elderly in the United States, 1989–2001
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Book Series
16 July 2006
The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation
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Working Paper No.447
03 May 2006
Household Wealth and the Measurement of Economic Well-Being in the United States
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Research Project Report
01 May 2005
Interim Report
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Research Project Report
01 March 2005
Economic Well-Being in US Regions and the Red and Blue States
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Research Project Report
01 December 2004
How Much Does Public Consumption Matter for Well-Being?
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Research Project Report
22 September 2004
How Much Does Wealth Matter for Well-Being?
