Rich Stats/FEI Note

[Brad De Long]

>In the Gale, Houser, Scholz data "FEI" is
>family expanded income, not the Treasury's
>"family economic income."  The former adds
>to AGI untaxed income like pension contributions,
>exempt interest, Social Security benefits,
>AFDC, Foot Stamps, SSI, etc., and 'before-
>income' taxes like the payroll tax, corporate
>income tax.  The only other imputation
>is for health insurance.  Treasury has further
>imputations, such as the imputed rental value
>of home ownership.
>
>mbs

Thanks. It had never in my wildest dreams occurred to me that their "FEI"
wasn't the Treasury "FEI"...

Brad DeLong