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Do the Wealthy Underreport their Income? Using General Election Filings to Study the Income-Wealth Relationship in India
The income reporting behaviour of different wealth groups is a critical public finance issue that has remained under-researched in the Indian and international contexts.
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Household Wealth and its distribution in the Netherlands, 1854-2019
We analyze the evolution of aggregate household wealth, its composition, and top wealth shares since the mid-19th century for the Netherlands, a country which
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Rethinking Capital and Wealth Taxation
This paper reviews recent developments in the theory and practice of optimal capital taxation. We emphasize three main rationales for capital taxation. First, the frontier
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Top Wealth in America: A Reexamination
Recent estimates of US top wealth shares obtained by capitalizing income tax returns (Saez and Zucman, 2020; Smith, Zidar and Zwick, 2022) are close
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Distributional National Accounts for Australia, 1991-2018
We produce estimates of the full distribution of all national income in Australia for the period 1991 to 2018, by combining household survey with
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Distributional National Accounts of Taiwan, 1991-2017
We construct the pre-tax Distributional National Accounts (DINA) of Taiwan from 1981 to 2017 using survey data. Our DINA individual income series demonstrates a
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Real-Time Inequality
This paper constructs high-frequency and timely income distributions for the United States. We develop a methodology to combine the information contained in high-frequency public
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More Unequal or Not as Rich? Revisiting the Latin American Exception
Latin America is often portrayed as a global exception to the rising or consolidating income inequality trends of the early twenty-first century. However, the
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Measuring the Carbon Content of Wealth Evidence from France and Germany
This paper estimates the distribution of annual wealth-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in France and Germany, using a novel method to combine newly released air
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