Post-Fisc Distributions of Income in 1950, 1961, and 1970
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Distributions of income after allocating all government taxes and expenditures to households are compared over two decades. Extending prior work back an additional decade and adding extensive sensitivity analyses leave our earlier conclusions unaffected. Specifically, despite efforts towards a more egalitarian distribution and a sizable increase in benefits accruing to the low end of the distribution, aggregate income dispersion in final distributions changed very little between 1950 and 1970.
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Morgan Reynolds (Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1971) is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Texas A&M University. He has published a dozen articles in economics journals and books of readings and co-authored a recently published book with Professor Smolensky.
Eugene Smolensky has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Wisconsin—Madison since 1968, and he is an Associate of the Institute for Research on Poverty. He is on the editorial boards of Land Economics and Urban Economics.
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