The incidence of economic stress in affluent areas: devising more accurate measures

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, The, April, 1994 by Leonard Gaines, Pearl M. Kamer

|Leonard Gaines, MS, is a doctoral candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and tutor at Empire State College, SUNY. Pearl M. Kamer, PhD., is research professor, Center for Regional Policy Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY 11790.~ The authors are grateful for the helpful comments on an earlier draft of two anonymous referees.

They also wish to thank the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), which funded the original research upon which this methodology is based through their Long Island Energy Research and Development Initiative.