The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being

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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.

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The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986 through the generous support of Bard College trustee Leon Levy, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. The Levy Institute is independent of any political or other affiliation, and encourages diversity of opinion in the examination of economic policy issues while striving to transform ideological arguments into informed debate.

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