THE DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS OF U.S. TAX AND TRANSFER POLICY ON THE HOUSEHOLD

Jeffrey A Mills and Sourushe Zandvakili

A chapter in Fiscal Policy, Inequality and Welfare, 2003, pp 195-212 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: Using decomposable measures of inequality, the implications of household structure are investigated by examining inequality between and within household groups based on the number of exemptions, which correlates with household size, and the filing status, which correlates with the common forms of household structure, i.e. married, single, head of household. Detailed household income data are used to measure income inequality for both pre-tax/transfer and post-tax/transfer definitions of income. These decompositions provide information about the degree of inequality, both before and after taxes and transfers, which is due to household size and filing status. The bootstrap is employed to construct standard errors for the inequality measures and their decompositions, and hypothesis tests are conducted to determine whether the observed changes in the distribution of income are statistically significant.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1016/S1049-2585(03)10009-9

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