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result in income or health gains …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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and agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual … labor, so overall there was no gain in measured income or consumption. We find suggestive evidence that these results are …
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This paper presents new information on the fraction of adjusted gross income, and of wages and salaries, that is … reported by taxpayers in the top one half of one percent of the income distribution. This corresponds to roughly five hundred … thousand households in the late 1990s. This paper relies on data from the Treasury's Individual Income Tax Model for the period …
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This paper examines the source of changes in corporate tax revenues during the last twenty-five years. It finds that legislative changes explain less than half of the revenue decline during this period. Falling corporate profits have had a larger influence on revenue collections than a11...
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corporations. For those firms with loss carryforwards, however, the incentive effects of the corporate income tax may differ …
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services. They also affect federal income tax revenues and the distribution of income tax liabilities. We draw on household … consumption as well as the distribution of income tax burdens. Our analysis recognizes that changing the mortgage interest … 2003 would have raised income tax revenues by $72.4 billion in the absence of any portfolio adjustments, but by only $61 …
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