Regional differences in inequality and income distribution in the United States

Dominick Salvatore and Fred Campano

Journal of Policy Modeling, 2022, vol. 44, issue 4, 780-789

Abstract: The Consumer Expenditure Survey makes it possible to disaggregate the income distribution of the whole country into four regional groups. This paper fits models over the regional summary tables of consuming units between income levels. The regional measures of central tendency are compared, and the mode, not normally published by the Census, is added. It also examines how the fulfillment of a federal government policy to pass on income to the poorer segments of the society could be financed if the cost of the subsidy is extracted by taxing a wealthy segment of the society.

Keywords: Federal redistribution policy; Income distribution by regions; Implicit regional income transfers; Redistribution by taxing the wealthy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D33 E25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpolmod.2022.09.010

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