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Top incomes and human well-being around the world

Burkhauser, Richard V.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; … - 2016

The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income shares affect human well-being. This study combines the latest data to examine the relationship...

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What has been happening to UK income inequality since the mid-1990s? : answers from reconciled and combined household survey and tax return data

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2016

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...

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Survey under-coverage of top incomes and estimation of inequality : what is the role of the UK's SPI adjustment?

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2017

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...

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Income growth and its distribution from Eisenhower to Obama : the growing importance of in-kind transfers (1959-2016)

Elwell, James; Corinth, Kevin; Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2019

We provide the first survey-based look at levels and trends in income and its distribution from 1959 to 2016 by linking Current Population Survey data from 1967 through 2016 with decennial Census data for 1959. We find that the dramatic decline in the market income of the middle class (measured...

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Estimating trends in US income inequality using the current population survey : the importance of controlling for censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, Stephen - 2008

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...

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Measuring inequality using censored data : a multiple imputation approach

Jenkins, Stephen; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...

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Recent trends in top income shares in the USA : reconciling estimates from march CPS and IRS tax return data

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, Stephen - 2009

Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster growing trends. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely...

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Using the P90/P10 index to measure US inequality trends with current population survey data : a view from inside the Census Bureau vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V. (contributor); … - 2007

The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many researchers to use the ratio of the 90th and 10th...

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What accounts for the rising share of women in the top 1 %?

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hérault, Nicolas; Jenkins, Stephen - 2020

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...

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Evaluating the success of President Johnson's war on poverty : revisiting the historical record using a full-income poverty measure

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Elwell, James; … - 2019

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but … policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty … reductions based on the standard that President Johnson set. To fill this gap, we develop a Full-income Poverty Measure with …

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