This paper examines the pattern of income mobility during the 1980s and the mid 1990s. It employs a panel of individual income tax returns for the years 1979 through 1995 to study this pattern, and explore whether income mobility has increased during the period. We focus on working age...

An extensive body of the literature has examined the determinants of individual giving to charity. Indeed, the role of the personal income tax continues to attract considerable attention. In contrast, very few have explored the effects of taxes on corporate giving. This paper represents an...

This paper explores the implications of evaluating income tax preferences, or tax expenditures, under a consumption tax baseline. First it examines the conceptual differences between income and consumption tax baselines. Next, an X-tax prototype of a consumption tax is employed to gauge the...

An extensive body of the literature has examined the determinants of individual giving to charity. Indeed, the role of the personal income tax continues to attract considerable attention. In contrast, very few have explored the effects of taxes on corporate giving. This article represents an...

This paper examines the pattern of income mobility during the 1980s and the mid 1990s. It employs a panel of individual income tax returns for the years 1979 through 1995 to study this pattern, and explore whether income mobility has increased during the period. We focus on working age...

This paper explores the implications of evaluating income tax preferences, or tax expenditures, under a consumption tax baseline. More specifically, it examines the conceptual differences between income and consumption tax baselines, and employs an X-tax prototype of a consumption tax to gauge...