Measuring Interstate and Interregional Income Inequality in the United States

Edward Nissan and George Carter
Additional contact information
Edward Nissan: University of Southern Mississippi
George Carter: University of Southern Mississippi

Economic Development Quarterly, 1994, vol. 8, issue 4, 364-372

Abstract: Interstate and interregional income inequality are reported for each year from 1929 to 1990 using a measure that belongs to the entropy family. It was found that a substantial reduction in inequality occurred between the early 1930s and mid-J970s, followed by a slight increase thereafter for both interstate and interregion. In particular, interregional inequality as a percentage of total interstate was reduced from approximately 85% in the 1940s to approximately 55% in the mid-1980s, increasing thereafter to 61% in 1990.

Date: 1994
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/089124249400800407 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:ecdequ:v:8:y:1994:i:4:p:364-372

DOI: 10.1177/089124249400800407

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economic Development Quarterly
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().