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 …

, thereby contributing to increased family income inequality. Sociologists have argued that educational homogamy has increased …

health spending (insurance 29% and technology 24%) while income less than 10%. By simultaneously occurring over this period … 59% of the rise in life expectancy at age 50 over this period while insurance and income explain less than 10%. -- Demand …

government expenditures (including Social Security and income assistance). Together, the reduction in smoking and the rise in …

We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income … the joint distributions of taxes paid and income, and discuss how taxes are affected by marital status and the number of … more unequally distributed than income. The top 5% (1%) of households account for 54% (34.8%) of total tax liabilities …

a proportional, gender-neutral income tax. …

a proportional, gender-neutral income tax. -- taxation ; two-earner households ; labor force participation …