universal access to health care had on family spending by income. Although the analysis found that the these measures did not …

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …

This paper tests whether state fiscal policy alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the Tiebout … decrease in neighborhood income homogeneity. …

This paper uses the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS), the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and the General … Social Survey (GSS) to measure the elasticity of family income on men’s adult earnings in 1980 and the early 1990s. The study … finds a large and statistically significant increase in the importance of family income over time when comparing cohorts in …

This paper tests whether state school finance reform alters neighborhood income homogeneity. One implication of the … that school finance has a significant effect on school district income sorting, especially among low income communities. …

income. More years in the U.S., higher education attainment and English language fluency remain strong predictors of …-born residents, or lower-income …