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Distributional Effects of Means Testing Social Security: An Exploratory Analysis

Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas; Tabatabai, Nahid - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper examines the distributional implications of introducing additional means testing of Social Security benefits where proceeds are used to help balance Social Security's finances. Benefits of the top quarter of households ranked according to the relevant measure of means are reduced...

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Happiness Inequality in the United States

Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper examines how the level and dispersion of self-reported happiness has evolved over the period 1972-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s. There have been large changes in the level of happiness...

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Controversies about the Rise of American Inequality: A Survey

Gordon, Robert J.; Dew-Becker, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor's share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...

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Misperceptions About the Magnitude and Timing of Changes in American Income Inequality

Gordon, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

The rise in American inequality has been exaggerated both in magnitude and timing. Commentators lament the large gap between the growth rates of real median household income and of private sector productivity. This paper shows that a conceptually consistent measure of this growth gap over 1979...

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How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Saez, Emmanuel; Kuziemko, Ilyana; Norton, Michael I.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We develop online survey experiments to analyze how information about inequality and taxes affects preferences for redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income...

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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation

Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...

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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...

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Climate and Conflict

Miguel, Edward Andrew; Burke, Marshall; Hsiang, Solomon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Until recently, neither climate nor conflict have been core areas of inquiry within economics, but there has been an explosion of research on both topics in the past decade, with a particularly large body of research emerging at their intersection. In this review, we survey this literature on...

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A Cautionary Note on Using Industry Affiliation to Predict Income

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Schwandt, Hannes - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Many literatures investigate the causal impact of income on economic outcomes, for example in the context of intergenerational transmission or well-being and health. Some studies have proposed to use employer wage differentials and in particular industry affiliation as an instrument for income....

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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same? The Safety Net and Poverty in the Great Recession

Bitler, Marianne P.; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Food Stamp spending, during the Great Recession. In this paper we examine the relationship between poverty, the social … the Great Recession. We do so using an alternative measure of poverty that incorporates taxes and in-kind transfers. We … disadvantaged. In the post-welfare reform world, TANF did not respond in the Great Recession and extreme poverty is more cyclical …

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