This paper assesses the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality over around three decades, from 1979 to 2007. It applies a new method for decomposing changes in government redistribution into (1) a direct policy effect resulting from policy changes and (2) the effects of changing market incomes. Over the period as a whole, the tax policy changes increased income inequality by pushing up the income share of high-income earners (the top 20%). (JEL H23, H31, H53, P16)
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Cleveland State Univ, Urban Policy & City Management, Cleveland, OH 44115 USACleveland State Univ, Urban Policy & City Management, Cleveland, OH 44115 USA
Hatch, Megan E.
Rigby, Elizabeth
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George Washington Univ, Publ Policy & Polit Sci, Washington, DC 20052 USACleveland State Univ, Urban Policy & City Management, Cleveland, OH 44115 USA
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Northwestern Univ, Dept Econ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
Northwestern Univ, Inst Policy Res, Evanston, IL 60208 USANorthwestern Univ, Dept Econ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
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Humboldt Univ, Dept Social Sci, Unter Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
WZB Berlin Social Sci Ctr, Demog & Inequal Res Grp, Berlin, GermanyHumboldt Univ, Dept Social Sci, Unter Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany
Zagel, Hannah
Breen, Richard
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Univ Oxford, Sociol, Oxford, EnglandHumboldt Univ, Dept Social Sci, Unter Linden 6, D-10099 Berlin, Germany