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What Accounts for the Rising Share of Women in the Top 1%?

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2020

The share of women in the top 1% of the UK's income distribution has been growing over the last two decades (as in several other countries). Our first contribution is to account for this secular change using regressions of the probability of being in the top 1%, fitted separately for men and...

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Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA : Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2009

Although the vast majority of US research on trends in the inequality of family income is based on public-use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, a new wave of research based on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster...

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Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey : The Importance of Controlling for Censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2008

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975-2004). We find that the upward trend in income inequality prior to 1993 significantly slowed thereafter once we control for top coding in the public use data and censoring in...

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Survey Under-Coverage of Top Incomes and Estimation of Inequality : What is the Role of the UK’s SPI Adjustment?

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2017

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...

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What has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality Since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2016

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top incomes literature). We reconcile differences in variable definitions and combine survey and tax...

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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development

Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...

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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - 2006

peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of Philippine …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …

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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome

De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2015

This paper tests how migrants' willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …

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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts : A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants

Ambler, Kate - 2014

We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We … weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from … other remittance channels, or to send remittances on behalf of other migrants. These findings are consistent with naïveté on …

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Channeling Remittances to Education : A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador

Ambler, Kate - 2014

We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances …

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