Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/315307 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Citation: 
[Journal:] International Tax and Public Finance [ISSN:] 1573-6970 [Volume:] 31 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Springer US [Place:] New York, NY [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 736-779
Publisher: 
Springer US, New York, NY
Abstract: 
About half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of government consumption (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). In many studies of post-tax inequality based on the Dina framework (including the influential study by Piketty et al. (Q J Econ 133(2):553–609, 2018), government consumption is allocated either proportionally to post-tax disposable income or on a per-capita basis, and the level of inequality is fairly sensitive to this choice. This paper provides direct evidence on how public education spending (a substantial part of government consumption) is actually distributed. An allocation proportional to post-tax disposable income is clearly rejected, while a lump-sum allocation is found to provide a good approximation.
Subjects: 
Inequality
Redistribution
Education
In-kind transfers
JEL: 
D31
H41
H52
I24
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Document Type: 
Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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