Various hypotheses have been put forward in recent years concerning the contributions of human capital to economic growth. This paper argues that school enrollment rates by far the most commonly used human capital measure in growth regressions attempting to test these hypotheses--conflate human...

This paper examines the Gini-based method of decomposing the redistributive effect of taxation into vertical, horizontal, and reranking components. The consequences of different bandwidth choices, used to identify close-equals groups to estimate the horizontal effect, are discussed. Two opposing...