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July 26, 2024
Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps
…Chetty and his coauthors. They just didn’t deteriorate as badly as among white kids raised poor. This was true of average and median household income, reaching the top fifth of…
February 8, 2024
Another Flawed Analysis Shows that Single Mothers are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives
…and consistent with elasticity estimates in Bastian’s own work. Bastian begins by calculating the mean across working single mothers of their average tax rate, doing so in every year from…
January 30, 2024
How Sensitive Are Single Mothers’ Work Decisions to a Change in Incentives? Correcting Misperceptions of the Evidence
…et al. (2021, rev 2022), p. A-21; single mothers and single mothers w/ hs or less; unpublished Bastian (2020) 0.6 — lower Appendix D; single mothers Bastian and Jones (2021)…
December 11, 2023
Has Inequality Made Americans Poorer than Bulgarians, Russians, and Filipinos?
…is a function of cultural preferences, not income inequality. Also worth noting: based on my analyses of the LIS, median income in the US is higher than in any of…
October 5, 2023
Do 60 Percent Of American Workers Have Insecure Jobs?
…at least $40,000 in 2022. Not too different from American Compass. Incidentally, the median female worker in this group earned $45,000. American Compass has selected an initial criterion for job…