I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for … higher incomes. Permanent income elasticity does not vary much among income classes, is rather low, and ranges between 0 …

population subgroups for total income inequality. Moreover, we show that existing methods are unsuitable to decompose the trend …

administrative data from the German Federal Statistical Office, extended disposable income inequality is found to be significantly … lower than disposable cash income inequality at the five percent level across all years. However, the extension does not … significantly change distributional trends. At the same time, publicly provided childcare and schooling notably decrease inequality …