, the gender wage gap has kept shrinking. Both individual- and household-level income inequality have continued to rise at … expenditures has remained remarkably stable over time. Income pooling within the family and redistribution by the government have … downturn in fifty years in which inequality in disposable income and consumption actually declined …

We explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility in the U.S. for a large number of subnational groups defined … by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income … find that income inequality and income growth patterns identified from administrative tax records differ in important ways …

Current Population Survey, the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the Consumer Expenditure Survey, and the Survey of Consumer … earnings, to disposable income, and, ultimately, to consumption and wealth. We document a continuous and sizable increase in … before 1982, but mitigate its increase thereafter. Taxes and transfers compress the level of income inequality, especially at …

simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …

Despite the large increase in U.S. income inequality, consumption for families at the 25th and 50th percentiles of … income has grown steadily over the time period 1960-2015. The number of cars per household with below median income has … wage growth of 1 percent per year during 1975-2015. Meaningful growth in consumption for below median income families has …

subsequently exhibit high income. I re-examine this puzzle in California, where most Asians settled historically. Asians achieved …