Estimating trends in US income inequality using the Current Population Survey: the importance of controlling for censoring |
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Authors: | Richard V Burkhauser Shuaizhang Feng Stephen P Jenkins Jeff Larrimore |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, 225 South 1400 East, Rm. 228, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;(2) Institute of Public and International Affairs at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA;(3) Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA;(4) Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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