This paper uses kernel density estimation on Current Population Survey data from the United States and Family Expenditure Survey data from the United Kingdom to describe the distribution of household size-adjusted real income in 1979 and how it changed over the next decade. It confirms previous...

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975-2004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...