Details about Shlomo Yitzhaki

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Postal address:	Shlomo Yitzhaki Dept. of Economics Hebrew University Jerusalem 91905 Israel
Workplace:	Central Bureau of Statistics, Government of Israel, (more information at EDIRC) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), (more information at EDIRC) Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2009

1. May growth lead to higher deprivation despite higher satisfaction ?
   Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank

2007

2. Cost Benefit Analysis of Presumptive Taxation
   International Studies Program Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU, International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
   Also in International Studies Program Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU, International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University (2006)
   See also Journal Article in FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis (2007)

2004

3. Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) View citations

2002

4. Desigualdad y bienestar social
   (Inequality and Social Welfare)
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
5. Inequality and Social Welfare
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations
6. Inégalité et bien-être social
   (Inequality and Social Welfare)
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
7. Why World Redistribution Fails
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
8. Неравенство и общественное благосостояние
   (Inequality and Social Welfare)
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2001

9. A Public Finance Approach to Assessing Poverty Alleviation
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
10. Decomposing world income distribution: does the world have a middle class ?
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
    See also Journal Article in Review of Income and Wealth (2002)
11. Integrating Expenditure and Tax Decisions: The Marginal Cost of Funds and the Marginal Benefit of Projects
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2000

12. Poverty and Policy in Latin America and Caribeean
    Working Papers, World Bank - Technical Papers View citations
13. Tax Avoidance, Evasion, and Administration
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Chapter (2002)

1995

14. The Costs of Taxation and the Marginal Cost of Funds
    IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund View citations

1991

15. The Optimal Two-Bracket Linear Income Tax
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Public Economics (1994)

1988

16. The shadow price of a tax inspector
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations
17. Welfare dominance and the design of excise taxation in Cote d'Ivoire
    Policy Research Working Paper Series, The World Bank View citations

1987

18. Welfare Dominance: An Application to Commodity Taxation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in American Economic Review (1991)

1985

19. The Optimal Size of a Tax Collection Agency
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article in Scandinavian Journal of Economics (1987)

1982

20. Are High Income Individuals Better Stock Market Investors?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
21. On Choosing a Flat-Rate Income Tax Schedule
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
22. The Diffusion of Innovations: A Methodological Reappraisal
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Business & Economic Statistics (1989)

1981

23. The Effects of Taxation on the Selling of Corporate Stock and the Realization of Capital Gains
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1980)

Undated

24. Income Tax Credits and Income Tax Exemptions
    Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, University of York

Journal Articles

2009

1. The “melting pot”: A success story?
   Journal of Economic Inequality, 2009, 7, (2), 137-151

2008

2. TESTING HYPOTHESES ABOUT ABSOLUTE CONCENTRATION CURVES AND MARGINAL CONDITIONAL STOCHASTIC DOMINANCE
   Econometric Theory, 2008, 24, (04), 1044-1062
3. Who Does Not Respond in the Household Expenditure Survey
   Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2008, 26, 329-344

2007

4. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Presumptive Taxation
   FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 2007, 63, (3), 311-326
   See also Working Paper (2007)

2006

5. Convergence forward and backward?
   Economics Letters, 2006, 92, (1), 47-51 View citations
6. Inequality measurement and the time structure of household income in Israel
   Journal of Economic Inequality, 2006, 4, (2), 153-179 View citations

2005

7. GROWTH AND CONVERGENCE: A SOCIAL WELFARE FRAMEWORK
   Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51, (3), 443-454 View citations
8. THE MEAN-GINI EFFICIENT PORTFOLIO FRONTIER
   Journal of Financial Research, 2005, 28, (1), 59-75 View citations
9. The limitations of decentralized world redistribution: An optimal taxation approach
   European Economic Review, 2005, 49, (4), 1051-1079 View citations
10. The properties of the extended Gini measures of variability and inequality
    Metron - International Journal of Statistics, 2005, LXIII, (3), 401-433

2004

11. The Gini Instrumental Variable, or the “double instrumental variable” estimator
    Metron - International Journal of Statistics, 2004, LXII, (3), 287-313

2003

12. A Family of Correlation Coefficients Based on the Extended Gini Index
    Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003, 1, (2), 129-146 View citations
13. An Asset Allocation Puzzle: Comment
    American Economic Review, 2003, 93, (3), 1002-1008 View citations
14. Gini’s Mean difference: a superior measure of variability for non-normal distributions
    Metron - International Journal of Statistics, 2003, LXI, (2), 285-316 View citations
15. Inequality and the accounting period
    Economics Bulletin, 2003, 4, (36), 1-8 View citations
16. The effect of using grouped data on the estimation of the Gini income elasticity
    Economics Letters, 2003, 78, (2), 153-159 View citations

2002

17. Decomposing World Income Distribution: Does the World Have a Middle Class?
    Review of Income and Wealth, 2002, 48, (2), 155-78 View citations
    See also Working Paper (2001)
18. Do we need a separate poverty measurement?
    European Journal of Political Economy, 2002, 18, (1), 61-85 View citations
19. Estimating Beta
    Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2002, 18, (2), 95-118 View citations

1999

20. On the proper bounds of the Gini correlation
    Economics Letters, 1999, 63, (2), 133-138 View citations

1997

21. Income tax credits and exemptions
    European Journal of Political Economy, 1997, 13, (2), 343-351 View citations

1996

22. Dalton-improving tax reform: When households differ in ability and needs
    Journal of Public Economics, 1996, 62, (3), 399-412 View citations
23. Guidelines on Searching for a Dalton-Improving Tax Reform: An Illustration with Data from Indonesia
    World Bank Economic Review, 1996, 10, (3), 541-62 View citations
24. On Using Linear Regressions in Welfare Economics
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1996, 14, (4), 478-86 View citations

1995

25. Dalton-Improving Indirect Tax Reform
    American Economic Review, 1995, 85, (4), 793-807 View citations
26. Equity, equality and welfare
    European Economic Review, 1995, 39, (3-4), 674-682 View citations

1994

27. Analyzing the standard deduction as a presumptive tax
    International Tax and Public Finance, 1994, 1, (1), 25-34 View citations
28. Economic distance and overlapping of distributions
    Journal of Econometrics, 1994, 61, (1), 147-159 View citations
29. The optimal two-bracket linear income tax
    Journal of Public Economics, 1994, 53, (2), 269-290 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1991)

1991

30. A Bayesian Perspective on Inference from Macroeconomic Data: Comment
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1991, 93, (2), 259-62
31. Calculating Jackknife Variance Estimators for Parameters of the Gini Method
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1991, 9, (2), 235-39 View citations
32. Income Stratification and Income Inequality
    Review of Income and Wealth, 1991, 37, (3), 313-29 View citations
33. Welfare Dominance: An Application to Commodity Taxation
    American Economic Review, 1991, 81, (3), 480-96 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1987)

1990

34. On the Effect of Subsidies to Basic Food Commodities in Egypt
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1990, 42, (4), 772-92 View citations
35. On the Sensitivity of a Regression Coefficient to Monotonic Transformations
    Econometric Theory, 1990, 6, (02), 165-169 View citations
36. Welfare dominance and the design of excise taxation in the Cote d'ivoire
    Journal of Development Economics, 1990, 33, (1), 1-18 View citations

1989

37. Improving the accuracy of estimates of Gini coefficients
    Journal of Econometrics, 1989, 42, (1), 43-47 View citations
38. The Diffusion of Innovations: A Methodological Reappraisal
    Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 1989, 7, (1), 35-47 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1982)

1988

39. Migration, remittances and inequality: A sensitivity analysis using the extended Gini index
    Journal of Development Economics, 1988, 28, (3), 309-322 View citations

1987

40. The Optimal Size of a Tax Collection Agency
    Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 1987, 89, (2), 183-92 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1985)
41. The Relation between Return and Income
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1987, 102, (1), 77-95

1986

42. Remittances and Inequality
    Economic Journal, 1986, 96, (383), 722-40 View citations

1985

43. Income Inequality Effects by Income
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1985, 67, (1), 151-56 View citations

1984

44. A note on the calculation and interpretation of the Gini index
    Economics Letters, 1984, 15, (3-4), 363-368 View citations
45. Mean-Gini, Portfolio Theory, and the Pricing of Risky Assets
    Journal of Finance, 1984, 39, (5), 1449-68 View citations
46. The Effects of Taxation on the Selling of Corporate Stock and the Realization of Capital Gains: Reply
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1984, 99, (1), 111-20 View citations

1983

47. On an Extension of the Gini Inequality Index
    International Economic Review, 1983, 24, (3), 617-28 View citations
48. Unemployment and Wage Rigidity: The Demand Side
    Oxford Economic Papers, 1983, 35, (2), 202-12 View citations

1982

49. A tax programming model
    Journal of Public Economics, 1982, 19, (1), 107-120 View citations
50. Migration, growth, distribution and welfare
    Economics Letters, 1982, 10, (3-4), 243-249 View citations
51. Relative deprivation and economic welfare
    European Economic Review, 1982, 17, (1), 99-113 View citations
52. Stochastic Dominance, Mean Variance, and Gini's Mean Difference
    American Economic Review, 1982, 72, (1), 178-85 View citations

1980

53. Relative Deprivation and the Gini Coefficient: Reply
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, 95, (3), 575-76
54. The Effects of Taxation on the Selling of Corporate Stock and the Realization of Capital Gains
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, 94, (4), 777-91 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1981)

1979

55. A Note on Optimal Taxation and Administrative Costs
    American Economic Review, 1979, 69, (3), 475-80 View citations
56. An Empirical Test of the Lock-in Effect of the Capital Gains Tax
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1979, 61, (4), 626-29 View citations
57. Relative Deprivation and the Gini Coefficient
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1979, 93, (2), 321-24 View citations

1978

58. The effects of the capital gains tax on the selling and switching of common stock
    Journal of Public Economics, 1978, 9, (1), 17-36 View citations

1974

59. Income tax evasion: A theoretical analysis
    Journal of Public Economics, 1974, 3, (2), 201-202 View citations

Chapters

2002

1. Tax avoidance, evasion, and administration
   Chapter 22 in Handbook of Public Economics, 2002, vol. 3, pp 1423-1470 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2000)