The impact of top incomes biases on the measurement of inequality in the United States
Working Paper 2017-452 Abstract The paper re-estimates the Gini inequality index for the United States using the Current Population Survey
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Month: November 2017
Consumption inequality across heterogeneous families
Working Paper 2017-451 Abstract This paper studies the transmission of wage shocks into consumption across families that exhibit unobserved preference
Read MoreIs inequality of opportunity robust to the measurement approach?
Working Paper 2017-450 Abstract Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic
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