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Trade, Inequality, and Poverty : What Do We Know? Evidence from Recent Trade Liberalization Episodes in Developing Countries

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2004

measurement and identification difficulties, and despite conflicting evidence on some issues, empirical work based on country case …

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Measuring the Unequal Gains from Trade

Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2014

Individuals that consume different baskets of goods are differentially affected by relative price changes caused by international trade. We develop a methodology to measure the unequal gains from trade across consumers within countries. The approach requires data on aggregate expenditures and...

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Intrahousehold Inequality

Chiappori, Pierre-André - 2014

Studies of inequality often ignore resource allocation within the household. In doing so they miss an important element of the distribution of welfare that can vary dramatically depending on overall environmental and economic factors. Thus, measures of inequality that ignore intra household...

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Measuring Top Incomes Using Tax Record Data : A Cautionary Tale from Australia

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2013

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.g. capital gains, dividends, etc.) disproportionately...

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Levels and Trends in United States Income and Its Distribution A Crosswalk from Market Income Towards a Comprehensive Haig-Simons Income Approach

Armour, Philip - 2013

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,...

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The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in The US, 1980-2010

Attanasio, Orazio - 2012

In this paper, we use a variety of different techniques to overcome the measurement error problems with the CE. First …, we use data from the diary component of the CE, focusing on categories where measurement error has been found to be less … component that is considered to be measured well. Third, we try to account directly for the non-classical measurement error of …

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Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income

Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2009

We use a parametric method to estimate the income distribution for 191 countries between 1970 and 2006. We estimate the World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that...

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Measuring Labor Earnings Inequality using Public-Use March Current Population Survey Data : The Value of Including Variances and Cell Means When Imputing Topcoded Values

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008

Using the Census Bureau's internal March Current Population Surveys (CPS) file, we construct and make available variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure that allows researchers with access only to the public-use...

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Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey : The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975-2004). We find that the upward trend in income inequality prior to 1993 significantly slowed thereafter once we control for top coding in the public use data and censoring in...

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Consistent Cell Means for Topcoded Incomes in the Public Use March CPS (1976-2007)

Larrimore, Jeff - 2008

Using the internal March CPS, we create and in this paper distribute to the larger research community a cell mean series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public use March CPS that has been topcoded since 1976. We also...

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