the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and …

illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner … regulation by the European Commission, (EC) which is currently being used to harmonize income measurement for the European … Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) in Europe. While both of these components represent some kind of return on …

expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy … may exacerbate income inequality in the long run if for the less skilled dynasties, the benefits of more public spending …-induced tax base erosion is not severe, an expansive income tax policy indeed enhances future human capital for all dynasties, and …

This paper studies the importance of dynamic earnings modeling for the design of income contingent student loans (ICLs …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper … applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to the issue of the taxation of top incomes. Our results suggest that …

We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We … provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … independent of the social welfare function and determined by the degree of income risk and risk aversion. The optimal linear …

olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … income gradient in UK. Standard behavioral risk factors (work, marriage, obesity, exercise, and smoking) almost fully explain … income gradients among 55-64 years old in both countries and a significant part among Americans 70-80 years old. The most …

income on the incidence and intensity of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using National Crime Victimization Survey data from … 1992 to 2000, we exploit time and family-size variation in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) by comparing IPV … groups more likely to both experience IPV and be eligible for EITC: unmarried women and black women. If increased income …