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Using a panel of household level tax data, we estimate the degree to which dependents are "reassigned" between tax … combined tax liabilities on average, suggesting some household level coordination. Additionally, when EITC benefits expanded in … subgroup reassigning towards three child tax units actually increased total household tax liabilities, suggesting that some …
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Participation in household surveys has fallen over time, making it harder to produce a household survey-like the Survey …
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living in the same household. We overcome these obstacles and create household records directly in the tax data using mailing … address information included on tax forms. We then present the first set of tax-based household income and inequality measures … for the entire income distribution. When comparing household income inequality results in the tax data to those using the …
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Well known research based on capitalized income tax data shows robust growth in wealth concentration in the late 2000s. We show that these robust growth estimates rely on an assumption---homogeneous rates of return across the wealth distribution---that is not supported by data. When the...
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The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) has a dual-frame sample design that supplements a standard area-probability frame with a sample of observations drawn from statistical records derived from tax returns. The tax-based frame is stratified on the basis of a "wealth index" constructed largely...
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We do not need to and should not have to choose amongst income, consumption, or wealth as the superior measure of well-being. All three individually and jointly determine well-being. We are the first to study inequality in three conjoint dimensions for the same households, using income,...
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