with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …

with ten to forty years of observations from the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics. We find that neither is strongly …

economy and thereby favor reducing income inequality when they realize their income-ability gap. We conducted an online survey … experiment in the US in which we assigned the treatment emphasizing each respondent's self-perception of the income-ability gap … randomly. We found that realizing the negative income-ability gap lowers respondents' perception of the fairness of the economy …

income distribution in both cases. We then establish that heterogeneity in family experiences throughout adult life is the … improve the work incentives in the middle 60% of the distribution of lifetime income. …

distribution-neutral methodology and welfare analysis developed in Kaplow (2008a) and related work, offering applications to income … taxation, commodity taxation, tax expenditures, externalities, public goods, capital income and wealth taxation, social …

This paper derives optimal income tax and human capital policies in a dynamic life cycle model of labor supply and …: counterbalancing distortions to human capital investment from the taxation of wage and capital income, encouraging labor supply, and … contemporaneous and future labor supply. I consider two ways to implement the optimum: income contingent loans, and a tax scheme that …

-cycle insurance impact is much smaller. At the mean, a positive hours shock of one standard deviation raises life-time income by 10 …

-cycle insurance impact is much smaller. At the mean, a positive hours shock of one standard deviation raises life-time income by 10 …