Publication type
Journal Article
Authors
Publication date
June 1, 2011
Summary:
We analyze trends in US size-adjusted household income inequality between 1975 and 2004 using the most commonly used data source-the public use version of the March Current Population Survey. But, unlike most researchers, we also give substantial attention to the problems caused by the topcoding of each income source in the CPS data. Exploiting our access to Census Bureau internal CPS data, we examine estimates from data incorporating imputations for topcoded incomes derived from cell means and estimates from data multiply-imputed from parametric distribution models. Our analysis yields robust conclusions about inequality trends. The upward trend in US income inequality that began in the mid-1970s and increased in the 1980s slowed markedly after 1993.
Published in
Journal of Economic Inequality
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 9 , p.393 -415
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10888-010-9131-6
ISSN
15691721
Subject
#520428
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