almost 60 years, for both the affected cohorts and for their children. To do this, we exploit a natural experiment provided … faced by immigrant children were not correlated with other factors that affected the long-term outcomes of individuals. We … locality of residence was a Yemenite enclave. We find that children who were placed in a better environment (i.e. with better …

ability distribution drive the impact of peer quality on students‟ achievements. To do so, we use census data for four cohorts … of pupils taking their age-14 national tests, and measure students‟ ability by their prior achievements at age-11. We …

targeted disadvantaged students in Israel. I show that the program led to significant gains in post-secondary education … universities. Free school choice increased also earnings at adulthood of treated students. Male students had much larger … improvements in college schooling and labor market outcomes. Female students, however, experienced higher increases in marriage and …

variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure … imputing its topcoded income values. As an example of its value we show how our new procedure improves on existing imputation …

-tax post-transfer income during each of the past four recessions. What distinguishes the Great Recession is that drops in … employment rather than wage earnings drove income declines. In addition, taxes and transfers played a much greater role in … offsetting market income losses --a result largely missed in analyses that do not account for taxes and transfers. This is …

Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e … the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …

Recent research on United States levels and trends in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income …. Piketty and Saez (2003) examine market income of tax units based on IRS tax return data, DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, and Smith … (2012) and most CPS-based research uses pre-tax, post-transfer cash income of households, while the CBO (2012) uses both …

The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … the data into moving five-year windows and compare mobility before and after reunification, income mobility declines …

through which these peer effects operate. We identify as low ability students those who are enrolled at least one year behind … repeaters and regular students. The status of repeaters is mostly determined by first grade; therefore, it is unlikely to have … variation in the proportion of these low ability students across cohorts of middle and high school students in Israel, we find …