Across U.S. households, the distribution of wealth is more skewed and fat-tailed than that of earnings. Benchmark models such as Aiyagari (1994), however, imply a less skewed and fat-tailed distribution for wealth than for earnings, because of their assumptions of (i) stationary earnings...

In this paper, we perform computational counterfactual experiments to examine the quantitative impact of marginal tax rates on the distribution of income. Our methodology builds on previous simulation models developed by Auerbach and Kotlikoff and Fullerton and Rogers, and uses an algorithm that...