Eugene Smolensky
Biographic Data
| ID | 149377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene Smolensky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Smolensky |
| SIGNATURE | SMOLENSKY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public Policy Schools
Saturdays with Nelson
Examining policies to reduce homelessness using a general equilibrium model of the housing market
Homeless in America, Homeless in California
It is generally believed that the increased incidence of homelessness in the United States has arisen from broad societal factors, such as changes in the institutionalization of the mentally ill, increases in drug addiction and alcohol usage, and so forth. This paper presents a comprehensive test of the alternate hypothesis that variations in homelessness arise from changed circumstances in the housing market and in the income distribution. We as…
Winners, losers, and efficiency: Achieving multiple goals in Japan's financial system reforms
When giving policy advice, economists often proceed as if efficiency is the only valid social goal. Although efficiency is important, we argue that single‐minded pursuit of it is counterproductive. It unnecessarily erects political hurdles to the enactment of efficiency‐enhancing reforms because policy proposals that ignore valid, nonefficiency concerns are more likely to meet political and bureaucratic resistance. Moreover, such resistance may b…
Getting the Homeless off the Streets and the Children off the Dole The Homeless. Christopher Jencks Welfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reform. Mary Jo Bane , David T. Ellwood
Trade-Offs Implicit in Child-Support Guidelines
Recent U.S. federal legislation required states to establish mandatory judicial guidelines for the setting of child-support awards. An equivalence-based approach is used to compare three formulae (two in use, one proposed) to three theoretical benchmarks, to clarify unavoidable trade-offs in the choice of a guideline. Generally, the formulae in use leave children worse off economically than would the benchmark formulae. Since the economic well-be…
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society
The level and trend of poverty in the United States, 1939–1979
A detailed record of the number and characteristics of persons in poverty is available since 1959. This paper provides measures for 1939 and 1949 that correspond as closely as possible to the official poverty statistics. Poverty as officially measured fell from 40.5 percent of all persons in 1949 to 13.1 percent in 1979 declining most among the elderly and least among female-headed households. We estimate the effects on the aggregate poverty rate…
Municipal Financing of the U.S. Fine Arts Museum: A Historical Rationale
Municipal involvement in the finance of fine arts museums raises the question: Just which market failure serves to rationalize this public subsidy? Two contenders are prominent in the literature: decreasing costs and education externalities. The relationship of price to marginal cost provides an operational test to distinguish among the two rationales. Scattered data from the 1880s and 1890s as well as contemporary discussion indicate that, impla…
Concluding Comments
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The Effects of Unemployment and Policy Changes on America's Poor
First, we employ a methodology that decomposes the change in poverty into changes due to the means and variances of market and transfer incomes and to other factors which affect the shape of the income distribution. We then briefly describe the Reagan economic programme. Finally, we estimate a regression model that reflects changes in these moments of the income distribution to changes in the unemployment rates and to the Reagan programme. The re…
Income Transfer Policies and the Poor: A Cross-National Perspective
A political revolution now under way among Western countries may have drastic repercussions on the poor. For most of the post-war period, government programmes designed to raise the income share of the poor proliferated and expanded. In the wake of the world-wide slowdown in economic growth following the first oil embargo of 1973, critics argued that the gains from redistributional programmes are far outweighed by adverse side-effects that reduce…
The Direct Measurement of Welfare Levels: How Much Does it Cost to Make Ends Meet
Sheldon Danziger, Jacques van der Gaag, Michael K. Taussig, Eugene Smolensky, The Direct Measurement of Welfare Levels: How Much Does it Cost to Make Ends Meet?, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Aug., 1984), pp. 500-505
Consumers and Product Safety: Market Processes and Imperfections
This paper reexamines the competitive market solution to the determination of product safety. The concept of an optimizing social level of product safety‐defined at the point at which the costs of increasing safety are equated to consumers willingness to pay for it‐is developed and discussed. Various potential market failures are outlined. These failures give reasons to expect that the competitive solution will not be achieved in practice and pro…
Public Assistance, Female Headship, and Economic Well-Being
Katharine Bradbury, Sheldon Danziger, Eugene Smolensky, Paul Smolensky, Public Assistance, Female Headship, and Economic Well-Being, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 3, Family Policy (Aug., 1979), pp. 519-535
Public Expenditures, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income: The United States, 1950, 1961, 1970
Poverty, Propinquity and Policy
There is no necessary connection between pov erty and income distribution. When poverty is defined by relative measures, the proportion of impoverished families is the same as it was in 1950. As a result, the urban problems of the United States have been exacerbated. What people spend on house paint, how they travel to work, how long they send their children to school, what public facilities they ask for, how much idle time they will have as adul…
The Economical Uses of Congestion
The economical uses of congestion
Decentralisation, Decision Rules and Residential Construction in Yugoslavia
Yugoslav planners have not been able to organise the volume of residental construction to their satisfaction. This paper notes two fundamental reasons for their difficulty. One route to an optimal amount of residential construction requires that decision-making be vested in administrative units which would not accord with political boundaries and which would have no historical antecedents. In the absence of such districts, existing administrative…
Agregate Supply and Demand Analysis
Modigliani on the Interaction of Monetary and Real Phenomena
In an important recent article,' Modigliani has renewed his analysis of the relationship between the real and monetary parts of the Keynesian system. One of Modigliani's major points in his latest article is that his famous 1944 model 2 embodied an error, for, in his opinion, it incorrectly specified the forms of the real aggregate consumption and investment demand functions.3 While we find much to agree with in this new model, we do not agree wi…
An Interrelationship among Income Distributions
Industrialization and income inequality: Recent United States experience
The level and trend of poverty in the United States, 1939–1979
A detailed record of the number and characteristics of persons in poverty is available since 1959. This paper provides measures for 1939 and 1949 that correspond as closely as possible to the official poverty statistics. Poverty as officially measured fell from 40.5 percent of all persons in 1949 to 13.1 percent in 1979 declining most among the elderly and least among female-headed households. We estimate the effects on the aggregate poverty rate…
Public Assistance, Female Headship, and Economic Well-Being
Katharine Bradbury, Sheldon Danziger, Eugene Smolensky, Paul Smolensky, Public Assistance, Female Headship, and Economic Well-Being, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 3, Family Policy (Aug., 1979), pp. 519-535
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society
Examining policies to reduce homelessness using a general equilibrium model of the housing market
Trade-Offs Implicit in Child-Support Guidelines
Recent U.S. federal legislation required states to establish mandatory judicial guidelines for the setting of child-support awards. An equivalence-based approach is used to compare three formulae (two in use, one proposed) to three theoretical benchmarks, to clarify unavoidable trade-offs in the choice of a guideline. Generally, the formulae in use leave children worse off economically than would the benchmark formulae. Since the economic well-be…
Municipal Financing of the U.S. Fine Arts Museum: A Historical Rationale
Municipal involvement in the finance of fine arts museums raises the question: Just which market failure serves to rationalize this public subsidy? Two contenders are prominent in the literature: decreasing costs and education externalities. The relationship of price to marginal cost provides an operational test to distinguish among the two rationales. Scattered data from the 1880s and 1890s as well as contemporary discussion indicate that, impla…
The Effects of Unemployment and Policy Changes on America's Poor
First, we employ a methodology that decomposes the change in poverty into changes due to the means and variances of market and transfer incomes and to other factors which affect the shape of the income distribution. We then briefly describe the Reagan economic programme. Finally, we estimate a regression model that reflects changes in these moments of the income distribution to changes in the unemployment rates and to the Reagan programme. The re…
Income Transfer Policies and the Poor: A Cross-National Perspective
A political revolution now under way among Western countries may have drastic repercussions on the poor. For most of the post-war period, government programmes designed to raise the income share of the poor proliferated and expanded. In the wake of the world-wide slowdown in economic growth following the first oil embargo of 1973, critics argued that the gains from redistributional programmes are far outweighed by adverse side-effects that reduce…
Poverty, Propinquity and Policy
There is no necessary connection between pov erty and income distribution. When poverty is defined by relative measures, the proportion of impoverished families is the same as it was in 1950. As a result, the urban problems of the United States have been exacerbated. What people spend on house paint, how they travel to work, how long they send their children to school, what public facilities they ask for, how much idle time they will have as adul…
The economical uses of congestion
Industrialization and income inequality: Recent United States experience
Industrialization and Income Inequality: Recent United States Experience
Industrialization and income inequality: Recent United States experience
Industrialization and Income Inequality: Recent United States Experience
An Interrelationship among Income Distributions
Modigliani on the Interaction of Monetary and Real Phenomena
In an important recent article,' Modigliani has renewed his analysis of the relationship between the real and monetary parts of the Keynesian system. One of Modigliani's major points in his latest article is that his famous 1944 model 2 embodied an error, for, in his opinion, it incorrectly specified the forms of the real aggregate consumption and investment demand functions.3 While we find much to agree with in this new model, we do not agree wi…
Agregate Supply and Demand Analysis
Decentralisation, Decision Rules and Residential Construction in Yugoslavia
Yugoslav planners have not been able to organise the volume of residental construction to their satisfaction. This paper notes two fundamental reasons for their difficulty. One route to an optimal amount of residential construction requires that decision-making be vested in administrative units which would not accord with political boundaries and which would have no historical antecedents. In the absence of such districts, existing administrative…
The Economical Uses of Congestion
The economical uses of congestion
Poverty, Propinquity and Policy
There is no necessary connection between pov erty and income distribution. When poverty is defined by relative measures, the proportion of impoverished families is the same as it was in 1950. As a result, the urban problems of the United States have been exacerbated. What people spend on house paint, how they travel to work, how long they send their children to school, what public facilities they ask for, how much idle time they will have as adul…
Public Expenditures, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income: The United States, 1950, 1961, 1970
Public Assistance, Female Headship, and Economic Well-Being
Katharine Bradbury, Sheldon Danziger, Eugene Smolensky, Paul Smolensky, Public Assistance, Female Headship, and Economic Well-Being, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 41, No. 3, Family Policy (Aug., 1979), pp. 519-535
Consumers and Product Safety: Market Processes and Imperfections
This paper reexamines the competitive market solution to the determination of product safety. The concept of an optimizing social level of product safety‐defined at the point at which the costs of increasing safety are equated to consumers willingness to pay for it‐is developed and discussed. Various potential market failures are outlined. These failures give reasons to expect that the competitive solution will not be achieved in practice and pro…
The Direct Measurement of Welfare Levels: How Much Does it Cost to Make Ends Meet
Sheldon Danziger, Jacques van der Gaag, Michael K. Taussig, Eugene Smolensky, The Direct Measurement of Welfare Levels: How Much Does it Cost to Make Ends Meet?, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Aug., 1984), pp. 500-505
Concluding Comments
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Effects of Unemployment and Policy Changes on America's Poor
First, we employ a methodology that decomposes the change in poverty into changes due to the means and variances of market and transfer incomes and to other factors which affect the shape of the income distribution. We then briefly describe the Reagan economic programme. Finally, we estimate a regression model that reflects changes in these moments of the income distribution to changes in the unemployment rates and to the Reagan programme. The re…
Income Transfer Policies and the Poor: A Cross-National Perspective
A political revolution now under way among Western countries may have drastic repercussions on the poor. For most of the post-war period, government programmes designed to raise the income share of the poor proliferated and expanded. In the wake of the world-wide slowdown in economic growth following the first oil embargo of 1973, critics argued that the gains from redistributional programmes are far outweighed by adverse side-effects that reduce…
Municipal Financing of the U.S. Fine Arts Museum: A Historical Rationale
Municipal involvement in the finance of fine arts museums raises the question: Just which market failure serves to rationalize this public subsidy? Two contenders are prominent in the literature: decreasing costs and education externalities. The relationship of price to marginal cost provides an operational test to distinguish among the two rationales. Scattered data from the 1880s and 1890s as well as contemporary discussion indicate that, impla…
The level and trend of poverty in the United States, 1939–1979
A detailed record of the number and characteristics of persons in poverty is available since 1959. This paper provides measures for 1939 and 1949 that correspond as closely as possible to the official poverty statistics. Poverty as officially measured fell from 40.5 percent of all persons in 1949 to 13.1 percent in 1979 declining most among the elderly and least among female-headed households. We estimate the effects on the aggregate poverty rate…
A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society
Trade-Offs Implicit in Child-Support Guidelines
Recent U.S. federal legislation required states to establish mandatory judicial guidelines for the setting of child-support awards. An equivalence-based approach is used to compare three formulae (two in use, one proposed) to three theoretical benchmarks, to clarify unavoidable trade-offs in the choice of a guideline. Generally, the formulae in use leave children worse off economically than would the benchmark formulae. Since the economic well-be…
Getting the Homeless off the Streets and the Children off the Dole The Homeless. Christopher Jencks Welfare Realities: From Rhetoric to Reform. Mary Jo Bane , David T. Ellwood
Winners, losers, and efficiency: Achieving multiple goals in Japan's financial system reforms
When giving policy advice, economists often proceed as if efficiency is the only valid social goal. Although efficiency is important, we argue that single‐minded pursuit of it is counterproductive. It unnecessarily erects political hurdles to the enactment of efficiency‐enhancing reforms because policy proposals that ignore valid, nonefficiency concerns are more likely to meet political and bureaucratic resistance. Moreover, such resistance may b…
Homeless in America, Homeless in California
It is generally believed that the increased incidence of homelessness in the United States has arisen from broad societal factors, such as changes in the institutionalization of the mentally ill, increases in drug addiction and alcohol usage, and so forth. This paper presents a comprehensive test of the alternate hypothesis that variations in homelessness arise from changed circumstances in the housing market and in the income distribution. We as…
Examining policies to reduce homelessness using a general equilibrium model of the housing market
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