Family Structure and the Distribution of Family Income

Abstract

This paper demonstrates that the stability of family income inequality in the postwar period derives from countervailing forces for greater and lesser inequality. Declining inequality among single-headed families and unrelated individuals has been offset by an increase in the percent of total inequality attributable to income differences between family types. Population shifts between family types also have influenced the distribution of income.

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