Cooper, Daniel; Lutz, Byron F.; Palumbo, Michael G. - 2011 - This version: September 22, 2011
Income inequality has risen dramatically in the United States since at least 1980. This paper quantifies the role that … the tax policies of the federal and state governments have played in mitigating this income inequality. The analysis …-sectional estimates compare before-tax and after-tax inequality across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Second, inequality …