The Review of Income and Wealth is the official journal of the International Association of Research in Income and Wealth, which has as its objective the furthering of research on national and economic and social accounting, including the development of concepts and definitions for the measurement and analysis of income and wealth; the development and further integration of systems of economic and social statistics, and related problems of statistical methodology. As a journal with an international readership, preference is given to studies of methodological interest and comparative analyses of more than one country.