Trickle Down or Transfers? Postwar Determinants of Family Income Inequality
评估了战后两种收入再分配理论：社会福利扩张与宏观经济扩张。研究发现，公共转移支付增长是降低女性户主家庭及无亲属男女收入差距的主要力量，而经济周期仅对夫妻家庭和独居男性有分配影响。
The expansion of social welfare has been promoted as one means of equalizing the distribution of economic well-being. Macroeconomic expansion has been touted as an alternative strategy for improving the lot of the poor. Focusing on the postwar era, this paper provides an empirical assessment of these two competing theories of income redistribution. For female-headed families and unrelated men and women, the growth of public transfers is seen to be the major force behind a reduction in income disparities. Only husband-wife families and men living apart from kin seem to have experienced any distributional impact of business cycles.