variances and cell means for all topcoded income values in the public-use version of these data. We then provide a procedure … imputing its topcoded income values. As an example of its value we show how our new procedure improves on existing imputation …

Atkinson, Piketty, and Saez (2011) survey an important new literature using income tax-based data to measure the share … of income held by top income groups. But changes in tax legislation that expand the tax base to include income sources (e … the share of income they hold. We provide a cautionary tale from Australia of how comprehensive tax reform legislation in …

Recent research on United States levels and trends in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income …. Piketty and Saez (2003) examine market income of tax units based on IRS tax return data, DeNavas-Walt, Proctor, and Smith … (2012) and most CPS-based research uses pre-tax, post-transfer cash income of households, while the CBO (2012) uses both …

series that provides the mean of all income values above the topcode for any income source of any individual in the public … together with the public use March CPS, we closely match the yearly mean income levels and income inequalities of the U …

lessons for both inflation measurement and some fundamental research questions in macro and international economics. In … particular, we show how online prices can be used to construct daily price indexes in multiple countries and to avoid measurement …

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income …'s pioneering ‘SPI adjustment' method that implements this idea. Since 1992, the principal income distribution series (reported … annually in Households Below Average Income) has been based on household survey data in which the incomes of a small number of …

types of measurement errors: higher-income households (who presumably spend more than average) are under-represented in the … new data set linking CE units to zip-code level average Adjusted Gross Income (AGI), we show that the very highest-income … income over most of the income distribution. Although increasing representation at the high end of the income distribution …