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The Effect of Income Taxes on Household Income [PDF]

open access: possibleReview of Economics and Statistics, 1999
Research on the distribution of income during the 1980s has identified a trend towards increasing inequality, which may be the continuation and acceleration of trends spanning several decades. This paper explores to what extent behavioral responses to the tax changes during the 1980s may also explain the rising inequality.
Gerald Auten, Robert Carroll
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HOUSEHOLD INCOME OR HOUSEHOLD INCOME PER CAPITA IN WELFARE COMPARISONS*

Review of Income and Wealth, 1980
In studies of income distribution household income is the common measure of household welfare, although household per capita income is better since it automatically “corrects” for household size. Perhaps the continued use of the former is a consequence of the belief that in practice the two give very similar results. This paper shows that in many cases
Gautam Datta, Jacob Meerman
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HOUSEHOLD INCOME PLUS HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTION: THE DISTRIBUTION OF EXTENDED INCOME IN THE U.K.

Review of Income and Wealth, 1996
This paper provides new estimates of the distribution of extended income amongst non‐elderly, one‐family households in the U.K. by combining household money income data and valuations of household production time. Extended income is substantially more equal than money income and extending the income definition changes income relativities significantly ...
Stephen P. Jenkins, Nigel C. O'Leary
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Household Income and Pollution

The Journal of Environment & Development, 2006
Country-level analyses of global Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) relationships that use multicountry panel data sets are likely to suffer from several types of aggregation bias that may explain why previous studies have yielded conflicting results. The authors analyze 1990 cross-sectional data for the United States for three pollutants and test the ...
Florenz Plassmann, Neha Khanna
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Households and Income in Africa

2014
A range of international efforts have established definitions on the components of household income. Putting these ideas into practice in Africa poses challenges, partly because many African household income activities are informal and seasonal: in farming and non-farm enterprises.
Kathleen Beegle   +3 more
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Rural Household Incomes

2016
This chapter analyzes rural household incomes. Studies have shown that overall rural household income is relatively low and is only equal to 58.8 % of the national average income. This shows the huge household income gap between rural and urban households in China. In terms of regional differences, rural household incomes in China’s eastern region rank
Li Gan, Zhichao Yin, Jijun Tan
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Household Income

2005
In this work we provide evidence on ways in which income varies across countries, by looking at its various sources and by assessing the relevance of corrections for differences in purchasing power, in household size and in taxation.
PACCAGNELLA, OMAR, WEBER, GUGLIELMO
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