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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...

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Partisan Tax Policy and Income Inequality in the U.S., 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...

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Misclassification in Binary Choice Models

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

While measurement error in the dependent variable does not lead to bias in some well-known cases, with a binary dependent variable the bias can be pronounced. In binary choice, Hausman, Abrevaya and Scott-Morton (1998) show that the marginal effects in the observed data differ from the true ones...

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The Under-Reporting of Transfers in Household Surveys: Its Nature and Consequences

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mok, Wallace K C; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

High rates of understatement are found for many government transfer programs and in many datasets. This understatement has major implications for our understanding of economic well-being and the effects of transfer programs. We provide estimates of the extent of under-reporting for ten transfer...

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Disability, Earnings, Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mok, Wallace K C - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using longitudinal data for 1968-2009 for male household heads, we determine the prevalence of pre- retirement age disability and its association with a wide range of outcomes, including earnings, income, and consumption. We then employ some of these quantities in the optimal social insurance...

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The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?

Meyer, Bruce D.; Bee, Adam; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper examines the quality of data collected in the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey, which is the source for the Consumer Price Index weights and is the main source of U.S. consumption microdata. We compare reported spending on a large number of categories of goods and services to...

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Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 3, pp. 111-36

We discuss poverty measurement, focusing on two alternatives to the current official measure: consumption poverty, and … the Census Bureau's new Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) that was released for the first time last year. The SPM has … advantages over the official poverty measure, including a more defensible adjustment for family size and composition, an expanded …

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Using repeated cross-sections to explore movements into and out of poverty

Dang, Hai-Anh; Lanjouw, Peter; Luoto, Jill; McKenzie, David - In: Journal of Development Economics 107 (2014) C, pp. 112-128

Movements in and out of poverty are of core interest to both policymakers and economists. Yet the panel data needed to … analyze such movements are rare. In this paper we build on the methodology used to construct poverty maps to show how repeated … cross-sections of household survey data can allow inferences to be made about movements in and out of poverty. We illustrate …

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Further Results on Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor Using Income and Consumption

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In the U.S., analyses of poverty rates and the effects of anti-poverty programs rely almost exclusively on income data … consumption. Measures of overall and sub-group poverty also sharply differ. In addition to examining broader populations and a …

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Consumption, Income, and Material Well-Being After Welfare Reform

Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

This paper investigates how material well-being has changed over time for those at the bottom of the distributions of income and consumption. We document the sharp differences between recent trends in measured income and consumption, focusing on families headed by a single mother. Since the...

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