Economie politique des inégalités

Thomas Piketty

 

Organisation du séminaire et bibliographie

(Année universitaire 2001-2002)

 

 

Lundi 16h-18h, du 12/11/2001 au 10/6/2002.

Ecole Normale Supérieure (48 bvd Jourdan, 75014 Paris), salle 8 (bâtiment principal)

Direction de travaux d’étudiants : lundi 14h-16h, ENS, bureau 101 (bâtiment B)

Email : thomas.piketty@cepremap.ens.fr

Url : http://www.cepremap.ens.fr/~piketty

 

 

Ouvrages généraux

 

A.B. Atkinson, The Economics of Inequality, Oxford University Press, 1983

A.B. Atkinson et J. Stiglitz, Lectures on Public Economics, McGraw Hill Publishers, 1980

A.B. Atkinson et F. Bourguignon (éd.), Handbook of Income Distribution, North-Holland, 2000

C.B. Mulligan, Parental Priorities and Economic Inequalities, Chicago University Press, 1997

T. Piketty, L’économie des inégalités, éditions La Découverte, collection « Repères », 1997

T. Piketty, Les hauts revenus en France au 20ème siècle – Inégalités et redistributions, 1901-1998, éditions Grasset, 2001

 

A. L’évolution des inégalités

 

A1. Les sources sur les inégalités

 

Les principales sources en France : enquêtes (Budget des familles, Emploi, Revenus fiscaux, etc.) versus fichiers administratifs et fiscaux (IR, ISF, ISu, IS, DADS, etc.) (publications à connaître : INSEE-Synthèses, Rapports du Conseil d’Analyse Economique (cae.gouv.fr), Rapports du Conseil des Impôts, Rapports du CERC, etc.) (fichiers : Lasmas - page d'accueil )

 

Sur les dangers des sources secondaires :

 

(*) A.B. Atkinson et A. Brandolini, « Promise and Pitfalls in the Use of « Secondary » Data-Sets : Income Inequality in OECD Countries as a Case Study », Journal of Economic Literature 39 (September 2001), pp.771-799

 

A. Banerjee et E. Duflo, « Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say ? », mimeo, MIT, 2000 [Banerjee-Duflo 2000]

 

K. Deininger et L. Squire, « A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality », World Bank Economic Review 10 (3) (1996), pp.565-591 [Deininger-Squire data set]

 

A2. Les inégalités dans le long terme

 

A.B. Atkinson, « Top Incomes in the United Kingdom over the Twentieth Century », mimeo, Nuffield College, 2001

 

A.B. Atkinson et A.J. Harrison, Distribution of personal wealth in Britain, Cambridge University Press, 1978

 

A.B. Atkinson et J. Micklewright, Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Distribution of Income, Cambridge University Press, 1992

 

Y. Brenner, H. Kaelble and M. Thomas, Income Distribution in Historical Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

 

(*) D. Costa, “The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View”, NBER Working Paper n°6419 (February 1998) [Costa 1998] (version plus complete parue dans Journal of Labor Economics 18 (1) (January 2000), pp.156-181) 

 

D. Costa, “American Living Standards, 1888-1994 : Evidence from Consumer Expenditures” , NBER Working Paper n°7650 (April 2000) [Costa 2000]

 

A. Deaton et C. Paxson, « Mortality, Income and Income Inequality over Time in Britain and the United States », NBER Working Paper n°8354 (2002)

 

R.W. Fogel, The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism, University of Chicago Press, 2000

 

C. Goldin et R.A. Margo, “The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (1) (February 1992), pp.1-34

 

H. Kaelble, Industrialization and Social Inequality in 19th Century Europe, Berg, 1985

 

F. Kraus, « The Historical Development of Income Inequality in Western Europe and the United States », in The Development of Welfare States in Europe and America, édité par P. Flora et A. Heidenheimer, pp.187-236, Transaction Books, 1981

 

S. Kuznets, Shares of Upper Income Groups in Income and Savings, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1953

 

(*) S. Kuznets, « Economic Growth and Economic Inequality », American Economic Review 45-1 (Mars 1955), pp.1-28 [Kuznets 1955]

 

R.J. Lampman, The Share of Top Wealth-Holders in National Wealth, 1922-1956, National Bureau of Economic Research/Princeton University Press, 1962

 

P. Lindert, « Three Centuries of Inequality in Britain and America», in Handbook of Income Distribution, édité par A. Atkinson et F. Bourguignon, pp.167-216, North-Holland, 2000

 

C. Morrisson, “Historical Perspectives on Income Distribution: the Case of Europe”, in A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Handbook of Income Distribution (North-Holland, 2000), 217-260.

 

(*) T. Piketty, Les hauts revenus en France au 20ème siècle – Inégalités et redistributions, 1901-1998, éditions Grasset, 2001

 

T. Piketty, « Les inégalités dans le long terme », in Inégalités économiques, Rapport du Conseil d’Analyse Economique n°33 (juin 2001), La documentation française.

 

T. Piketty, « Income Inequality in France, 1901-1998 », CEPR Discussion Paper n°2876 (July 2001) [Piketty 2001]

 

(*) T. Piketty et E. Saez, « Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998 », NBER Working Paper n°8467 (September 2001) [Piketty-Saez 2001]

 

J.G. Williamson, Did British Capitalism Breed Inequality?, Allen & Unwin, 1985

 

J.G. Williamson et P. Lindert, American Inequality – A Macroeconomic History, Academic Press, 1980

 

A3. Les inégalités depuis les années 1980

 

D. Acemoglu, « Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market », NBER Working Paper n°7800 (July 2000) [Acemoglu 2000]

 

A. Atkinson, L. Rainwater and T. Smeeding, Income Distribution in OECD Countries – Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study, OECD, 1995.

 

(*) M. Bertrand et S. Mullainathan, “Do CEOs Set Their Own Pay ? The Ones Without Principals Do”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (3) (August 2001), pp.901-932 [Bertrand et al 2001]

 

(*) F.D. Blau et L.M. Kahn, “Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher US Wage Inequality?”, NBER Working Paper n°8210 (April 2001) [Blau-Kahn 2001a]

 

D. Devroye et R. Freeman, “Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality of Earnings Across Advanced Countries”, NBER Working Paper n°8140 (February 2001) [Devroye-Freeman 2001]

 

A. Goodman, P. Johnson and S. Webb, Inequality in the UK, Oxford University Press, 1997.

 

P. Gottschalk, B. Gustafsson and E. Palmer, Changing Patterns in the Distribution of Economic Welfare, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

 

P. Gottschalk and T. Smeeding, “Empirical Evidence on Income Inequality in Industrialized Countries”, in A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Handbook of Income Distribution (North-Holland, 2000), 261-307.

 

E.M. Gramlich, R. Kasten and F. Sammartino, “Growing Inequality in the 1980s: the Role of Federal Taxes and Cash Transfers”, in S. Danziger and P. Gottschalk, Uneven Tides – Rising Inequality in America (Russel Sage Foundation, 1993), 225-249.

 

C. Juhn, K. Murphy and B. Pierce, “Wage Inequality and the Rise in Returns to Skill”, Journal of Political Economy 101 (1993), 410-442.

 

L. Katz, G. Loveman and D. Blanchflower, “A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages in Four OECD Countries”, in L. Katz and R. Freeman, Differences and Changes in Wage Structure, University of Chicago Press, 1995.

 

D.S. Lee, “Wage Inequality in the United States during the 1980s: Rising Dispersion or Falling Minimum Wage?”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (3) (August 1999), pp.977-1023

 

F. Levy et R. Mumane, “Earnings Levels and Earnings Inequality: A Review of Recent Trends and Proposed Explanations”, Journal of Economic Literature 30 (1992), 1333-1381.

 

E. Wolff, Top Heavy – The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in America and What Can Be Done About It, The New Press, 1995.

 

B. Inégalités face au capital

 

B1. Inégalités et marchés financiers, I : la question des CEOs inefficaces

 

(*) R.K. Morck, D.A. Strangeland et B. Yeung, « Inherited Wealth, Corporate Control and Economic Growth: the Canadian Desease? », in R.K. Morck, Concentrated Capital Ownership, NBER/University of Chicago Press, pp.319-369, 2000 [Morck et al 2000]

 

(*) F. Pérez-Gonzalez, “Does Inherited Control Hurt Firms’ Performance?”, mimeo, Harvard, 2001 [Perez-Gonzales 2001]

 

B2. Inégalités et marches financiers, II: un siècle de stock market

 

E.L. Glaeser et A. Shleifer, « Legal Origins », NBER Working Paper n°8272 (May 2001) [Glaeser-Shleifer 2001]

 

J. Greenwood et B. Jovanovic, “The IT Revolution and the Stock Market”, American Economic Review 89(2) (May 1999), pp.116-122 [Greenwood-Jovanovic 1999]

 

S. Johnson, R. La Porta, F. Lopez-de-Silanes et A. Shleifer, « Tunneling », American Economic Review 90 (May 2000), pp.22-27 [Johnson et al 2000]

 

B. Jovanovic et P.L. Rousseau, “Vintage Organization Capital :1885-1998”, NBER Working Paper n°8166, march 2001 [Jovanovic-Rousseau 2001]

 

P. Jorion et W.N. Goetzmann, « Global Stock Markets in the 20th Century », Journal of Finance 54 (3) (June 1999), pp.953-980  (cf. également globalfindata.com)

 

R. La Porta, F. Lopez-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer et R.W. Vishny, « The legal determinants of external finance », Journal of Finance 52 (1997), pp.1131-1150 [La Porta et al 1997]

 

R. La Porta, F. Lopez-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer et R.W. Vishny, « Law and finance », Journal of Political Economy 106 (6) (1998), pp.1113-1155 [La Porta et al 1998]

 

R. La Porta, F. Lopez-de-Silanes, A. Shleifer et R.W. Vishny, « Corporate Ownership Around the World », Journal of Finance 54 (2) (April 1999), pp.471-517 [La Porta et al 1999]

 

J.M. Poterba et A.A. Samwick, « Stock Ownership Patterns, Stock Market Fluctuations, and Consumption », Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1995 (2), pp.295-372

 

(*) R.G. Rajan et L. Zingales, « The Great Reversals : The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century », NBER Working Paper n°8178 (March 2001) [Rajan-Zingales 2001 (Paper)] [Rajan-Zingales 2001 (Technical Appendix)]

 

B3. Inégalités et marches financiers, III: le rôle de la dette publique

 

(*) P. Aghion, A. Banerjee et T. Piketty, « Dualism and Macroeconomic Volatility », Quarterly Journal of Economics 114 (4) (November 1999), pp.1359-1397

 

A. Alesina et R. Perotti, « Fiscal Expansions and Adjustments in OECD Countries », Economic Policy (October 1995), pp.207-248

 

R. Barro, “U.S. Deficits Since World War I”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 88 (1) (1986), pp.195-222

 

H. Bohn, “The Behavior of U.S. Public Debt and Deficits”, Quarterly Journal of Public Economics 113 (3) (August 1998), pp.949-963

 

D.W. Elmenderof et N.G. Mankiw, « Government Debt », in Handbook of Macroeconomics, vol.1, édité par J.B. Taylor et M. Woodford, chapitre 25, pp.1615-1669, North-Holland, 1999

 

Fletcher, K., “Government Debt and the Intragenerational Distribution of Income”, mimeo, Harvard, 1999

 

M. Gavin et R. Perotti, « Fiscal Policy in Latin America », NBER Macroeconomics Annual (1997)

 

(*) N.G. Mankiw, “The Savers-Spenders Theory of Fiscal Policy”, American Economic Review 90 (2) (May 2000), pp.120-125

 

 

 

B.4. Le problème de la taxation optimale du capital et de l’héritage

 

P. Aghion et P. Bolton, « A Trickle-Down Theory of Growth and Development with Debt-Overhang”, Review of Economic Studies 64 (1997), pp.151-172

 

R. Aiyagari, “Optimal Capital Income Taxation with Incomplete Markets, Borrowing Constraints and Constant Discounting”, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Working Paper n°108 (1993)

 

L. Arrondel et A. Laferrère, « Taxation and Wealth Transmission in France », Journal of Public Economics 79 (1) (January 2001), pp.3-33

 

A. Banerjee et A. Newman (1993), « Occupational Choice and the Process of Development », Journal of Political Economy 101 (1993), pp.274-299

 

R. Boadway, M. Marchand et P. Pestieau, “Redistribution with Unobservable Bequests: a Case for Taxing Capital Income”, CORE Discussion Paper n°9770 (1997)

 

D. Bernheim, “Taxation and Saving“, in Handbook of Public Economics, vol.3, édité par A.J. Auerbach et M. Feldstein, North Holland, 1999 [Bernheim 1999]

 

C.D. Caroll, “Why Do the Rich Save So Much?”, in Does Atlas Shrug? – The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich, édité par J.B. Slemrod, pp.465-485, Harvard University Press, 2000 [Carroll 2000]

 

C. Chamley, “Optimal Taxation of Capital Income in General Equilibrium with Infinite Lives”, Econometrica 54 (1986), pp.607-622

 

(*) C. Chamley, “Capital Income Taxation, Wealth Distribution and Borrowing Constraints”, Journal of Public Economics 79 (1) (January 2001), pp.55-70

 

A. Direr et T. Weitzenblum, 2001

 

K.E. Dynan, J. Skinner et S.P. Zeldes, “Do the Rich Save More?”, NBER Working Paper n°7906 (September 2000) [Dynan et al 2000]

 

W.G. Gale et M.G. Perozek, “Do Estate Taxes Reduce Saving?”, in Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation, édité par W.G. Gale, J.R. Hines et J.B. Slemrod, pp.216-247, Brookings Institution Press, 2001

 

D. Holtz-Eakin, D. Joulfaian et H.S. Rosen, « The Carnegie conjecture : some empirical evidence », Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (May 1993), pp.288-307 [Holtz-Eakin et al 1993]

 

D. Holtz-Eakin et D. Marples, “Distortion Costs of Taxing Wealth Accumulation : Income versus Estate Taxes”, NBER Working Paper n°8261 (April 2001) [Holtz-Eakin-Marples 2001]

 

L.E. Jones, R.E. Manuelli et P.E. Rossi, “Optimal Taxation in Models of Endogeneous Growth”, Journal of Political Economy 101 (1993), pp.485-517

 

K. Judd, “Redistributive Taxation in a Simple Pefect Foresight Model”, Journal of Public Economics 28 (1985), pp.59-83

 

W. Kopczuk et J. Slemrod, “The Impact of the Estate Tax on the Wealth Accumulation and Avoidance Behavior of Donors”, in Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation, édité par W.G. Gale, J.R. Hines et J.B. Slemrod, pp.299-343, Brookings Institution Press, 2001

 

L. Kotlikoff, “Intergenerational Transfers and Savings“, Journal of Economic Perspectives 2 (1988), pp.41-58

 

J. Laitner, “Simulating the Effects on Inequality and Wealth Accumulation of Eliminating the Federal Gift and Estate Tax”, in Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation, édité par W.G. Gale, J.R. Hines et J.B. Slemrod, pp.258-292, Brookings Institution Press, 2001

 

J. Laitner et H. Ohlsson, « Bequest Motives : A Comparison of Sweden and the United States », Journal of Public Economics 79 (1) (January 2001), pp.205-236

 

O. Lamont, “Cash Flow and Investment: Evidence from Internal Capital Markets”, Journal of Finance 52 (1997), 83-109.

 

R. Lucas, “Supply-Side Economics: an Analytical Review”, Oxford Economic Papers 42 (1990), 293-316.

 

F. Modigliani, “The Role of Intergenerational Transfers and Lifecycle Saving in the Accumulation of Wealth”, Journal of Economic Perspectives 2 (1988), 15-40.

 

T. Piketty, “The Dynamics of the Wealth Distribution and the Interest Rate with Credit Rationing”, Review of Economic Studies 64 (2) (April 1997), pp.173-189

 

T. Piketty, Theories of Persistent Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility”, in Handbook of Income Distribution (chapitre 8, pp.429-476), édité par Tony Atkinson and François Bourguignon, North-Holland, 2000

 

(*) T. Piketty, « Income Inequality in France, 1901-1998 », CEPR Working Paper n°2876 (July 2001) (Appendix, pp.30-32) [Piketty 2001]

 

J. Poterba and A. Samwick, “Taxation and Household Portfolio Composition: US Evidence from the 1980s and 1990”, NBER Working Paper n°7392 (1999).

 

J. Poterba, S. Venti and D. Wise, “Do 401(k) Contributions Crowd Out Personal Saving?”, Journal of Public Economics 58 (1995), 1-32.

 

J. Poterba and S. Weisbenner, “The Distributional Burden of Taxing Estates and Unrealized Capital Gains at the Time of Death”, NBER Working Paper n°7811 (2000).

 

E. Saez, “Optimal Progressive Capital Income Taxes in the Dynastic Model”, mimeo, Berkeley, 2001 [Saez 2001b]

 

S.F. Venti et D.A. Wise, “Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement”, NBER Working Paper n°7521 (February 2000) [Venti-Wise 2000]

 

M. Wilhelm, “Bequest Behavior and the Effect of Heirs Earnings: Testing the Altruistic Model of Bequests”, American Economic Review 86 (1996), 874-892.

 

C. Inégalités face au travail

 

C1. Théories de la taxation optimale des revenus du travail, I : la courbe optimale des taux marginaux

 

T. Besley and S. Coate, “The Design of Income Maintenance Programs”, Review of Income Studies 62 (1995), 187-221.

 

P. Chone et G. Laroque, « Optimal Incentives for Labor Force Participation », Document de travail du CREST n°2001-25

 

P. Diamond, “Optimal Income Taxation: An Example with a U-Shaped Pattern of Optimal Marginal Rates”, American Economic Review 88 (1998), 83-95

 

A. Manning, “Monopsony and Labor Market Policy”, mimeo, LSE (2001) [Manning 2001]

 

J. Mirrlees, “An Exploration in the Theory of Optimal Income Taxation”, Review of Economic Studies 38 (1971), 175-208.

 

J. Mirrlees, “Notes on Welfare Economics, Information and Uncertainty”, in Essays on Economic Behavior under Uncertainty, edited by M.S. Balch, D.L. McFadden and S.Y. Wu,  North-Holland, 1974, 243-258

 

T. Piketty, Introduction à la théorie de la redistribution des richesses, éditions Economica, 1994, chapitres 1 et 2 (pp.25-51) 

 

(*) T. Piketty, “Social Mobility and Redistributive Politics”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 110 (3) (August 1995), 551-584 [Piketty 1995]

 

(*) T. Piketty, « La redistribution fiscale face au chômage », Revue française d’économie 12 (1) (hiver 1997), pp.157-201

 

(*) E. Saez, “Using Elasticities to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates”, Review of Economic Studies 68 (1)  (January 2001), pp.205-229 [Saez 2001a]

 

E. Saez, “Optimal Income Transfer Programs: Participation versus Intensity of Work”, NBER Working Paper n°7708 (May 2000) [Saez 2000]

 

J. Stiglitz, “Pareto Efficient and Optimal Taxation and the New New Welfare Economics”, in A. Auerbach and M. Feldstein eds., Handbook of Public Economics, Volume 2 (North Holland, 1987), 991-1041.

 

C2. Théories de la taxation optimale des revenus du travail, I| : la taxation de la consommation

 

A. Atkinson and J. Stiglitz, “The Design of Tax Structure: Direct vs. Indirect Taxation”, Journal of Public Economics 6 (1976), 55-75

 

A. Atkinson and J. Stiglitz, Lectures on Public Economics, 1980, Lecture 12.

 

V. Christiansen, “Which Commodity Taxes Should Supplement the Income Tax ?”, Journal of Public Economics 24 (1984), 195-220

 

H. Cremer, P. Pestieau and J.C. Rochet, “Direct vs. Indirect Taxation: the Design of Tax Structure Revisited”, mimeo, IDEI (Toulouse), 1998.

 

P. Diamond and J. Mirrlees, “Optimal Taxation and Public Production, I: Production Efficiency and II: Tax Rules”, American Economic Review 61 (1971), 8-27 and 261-278.

 

H. Naito, “Tariffs and Production Subsidies for Income Redistribution”, mimeo, University of Michigan, 1998.

 

H. Naito, “Re-Examination of Uniform Commodity Taxes Under a Non-Linear Income Tax System and its Implication for Production Efficiency”, Journal of Public Economics 71 (1999), 165-188.

 

E. Saez, “The Desirability of Commodity Taxation under Non-linear Income Taxation and Heterogeneous Tastes”, Journal of Public Economics 83 (2) (February 2002), 217-230

 

C3. Estimations empiriques de l’élasticité de l’offre de travail

 

A. Auerbach et J. Slemrod, “The Economic Effects of the Tax Reform Act of 1986“, Journal of Economic Literature 35 (1997), 589-632.

 

R. Blundell, A. Duncan et C. Meghir, “Estimating Labor Supply Responses Using Tax Reforms”, Econometrica 66 (1998), 827-262

 

E. Browning, “Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Income and Welfare”, National Tax Journal 47 (1994), 76-97

 

D. Card et P. Robbins, “Do Financial Incentives Encourage Welfare Recipients to Work ? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation of the Self-Sufficiency Project”, NBER  Working Paper n°5701 (1996) [Card-Robbins 1996]

 

N. Eissa, “Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Women: The Tax Reform Act of 1986 as a Natural Experiment”, NBER Working Paper n°5023 (1995).

 

N. Eissa et H. Hoynes, “The EITC and Labor Supply: Married Couples”, mimeo, UC Berkeley, 1998.

 

N. Eissa et H. Hoynes, “Good News For Low-Income Families: Tax-Transfer Schemes and Marriage”, mimeo, UC-Berkeley, 1999.

 

N. Eissa et J. Liebman, “Labor Supply Response to the Earned Income Tax Credit”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 111 (1996), 605-637.

 

D. Feenberg et J. Poterba, “Income Inequality and the Incomes of Very-High-Income Taxpayers: Evidence from Tax Returns”, Tax Policy and the Economy 7 (1993), 145-173.

 

D. Feenberg et J. Poterba, “The Income and Tax Share of Very High Income Households”, American Economic Review (May 2000)

 

(*) M. Feldstein, “The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Income: A Panel Study of the 1986 Tax Reform Act”, Journal of Political Economy 103 (1995), 551-572 [Feldstein 1995]

 

A. Goolsbee, “What Happens When You Tax the Rich? Evidence from Executive Compensation”, Journal of Political Economy (April 2000)

 

A. Goolsbee, “Evidence on the High-Income Laffer Curve from Six Decades of Tax Reform”, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1999:2.

 

R.H. Gordon et J. Slemrod, “Are “Real” Responses to Taxes Simply Income Shifting Between Corporate and Personal Tax Bases?”, in Does Atlas Shrug? – The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich, édité par J.B. Slemrod, Harvard University Press, 2000

 

J. Gruber et E. Saez, “The Elasticity of Taxable Income: Evidence and Implications”, NBER Working Paper n°7512 (2000).

 

B.J. Hall et J.B. Liebman, “The Taxation of Executive Compensation”, NBER Working Paper n°7596 (2000).

 

J. Hausman, “Taxes and Labor Supply”, in A. Auerbach and M. Feldstein, eds., Handbook of Public Economics (North-Holland, 1985), 213-265.

 

J. Hausman et J. Poterba, “Household Behavior and the Tax Reform Act of 1986”, Journal of Economic Perspectives 1 (1987), 101-119.

 

L. Lindsey, “Individual Taxpayer Responses to Tax Cuts, 1982-1984, with Implications for the Revenue Maximizing Tax Rate”, Journal of Public Economics 33 (1987), 173-206

 

T. MaCurdy, “Work Disincentive Effects of Taxes: A Reexamination of Some Evidence”, American Economic Review 80 (1992), 243-249.

 

B. Meyer et D. Rosenbaulm, « Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers », Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (3) (August 2001), pp.1063-1114 [Meyer-Rosenbaulm 2001]

 

R. Moffitt et M. Wilhelm, “Taxes and Labor Supply Decisions of the Affluent”, in Does Atlas Shrug? – The Economic Consequences of Taxing the Rich, édité par J.B. Slemrod, Harvard University Press, 2000

 

J. Navratil, “The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 – Evidence on Individual Taxpayer Behavior from Panel Tax Return Data”, mimeo, Harvard, 1994.

 

D. Neumark et W. Wascher, “Using the EITC to Help Poor Families: New Evidence and a Comparison with the Minimum Wage”, NBER Working Paper n°7599 (2000).

 

J. Pencavel, “Labor Supply of Men: A Survey”, in O. Ashenfelter and R. Layard, Handbook of Labor Economics, volume 1 (North-Holland, 1987), 3-98.

 

(*) T. Piketty, « L’impact des incitations financières au travail sur les comportements individuels : une estimation pour le cas français », Economie et Prévision n°132-133 (janvier-mars 1998), pp.1-35 [Piketty 1998]

 

(*) T. Piketty, “Les hauts revenus face aux modifications des taux marginaux supérieurs de l’impôt sur le revenu en France, 1970-1996”, Economie et Prévision 138-139 (1999), 25-60

 

E. Saez, “Responses to Federal Income Tax Changes in the Interwar Period”, mimeo, MIT, 1998.

 

E. Saez, “The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Income: A Panel Study of Bracket Creep”, NBER Working Paper n°7367 (1999)

 

F. Sammartino et D. Weiner, “Recent Evidence on Taxpayers’ Response to the Rate Increases in the 1990s”, National Tax Journal 50 (1997), 683-705.

 

M. Showalter et N. Thurston, “Taxes and Labor Supply of High-Income Physicians”, Journal of Public Economics 66 (1997), 73-98.

 

M.A. Sillamaa et M.R. Veall, “The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Taxable Income : A Panel Study of the 1988 Tax Flattening in Canada”, Journal of Public Economics 80 (3) (June 2001), pp.341-356

 

J. Slemrod, “High-Income Families and the Tax Changes of the 1990s: the Anatomy of Behavioral Response”, in Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation, édité par M. Feldstein et J. Poterba, University of Chicago Press, 1996

 

C4. Redistribution optimale et chômage

 

J. Abowd, F. Kramarz, D. Margolis et T. Philippon, “The Tale of Two Countries : Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States”, mimeo, 2001 [Abowd et al 2001]

 

(*) M. Bertrand et F. Kramarz, “Does Entry Regulation Hinder Job Creation ? Commercial Zoning and Retailing Employment in France”, NBER Working Paper n°8211 (April 2001) [Bertrand-Kramarz 2001]

 

P. Cahuc, “Les expériences françaises de réduction du temps de travail: moins d’emplois et plus d’inégalités”, Revue française d’économie 15, pp.141-166 (2001)

 

B. Crépon et R. Desplatz, « Evaluation des effets des dispositifs d’allègements de charges sociales sur les bas salaires », Economie et statistiques n°348, pp.3-24 (2001) [Crepon-Desplatz 2002]

 

B. Crépon et F. Kramarz, « Employed 40 Hours or Not Employed 39? Lessons from the 1982 Mandatory Reduction of the Workweek », mimeo, CREST, 2001 [Crépon-Kramarz 2001]  (forthcoming, JPE)

 

B. Dormont, D. Fougère et A. Prieto, « L’effet de l’allocation unique dégressive sur la reprise d’emploi », mimeo, CREST, 2001

 

M. Fiole, V. Passeron et M. Roger, « Premières évaluations quantitatives des réductions collectives du temps de travail »,  Documents d’études de la DARES n°35 (janvier 2000)

 

F. Kramarz et T. Philippon, « The Impact of Differential Payroll Tax Subsidies on Minimum Wage Employment », Journal of Public Economics 82 (1) (October 2001), pp.115-146 [Kramarz-Philippon 2001]

 

G. Laroque et B. Salanié, « Une décomposition du non-emploi en France », Economie et statistiques n°331, pp.47-66 (2000) (« Labour Market Institutions and Employment in France », Journal of Applied Econometrics 17, pp.25-48, 2002)

 

T. Piketty, « Les créations d’emplois en France et aux Etats-Unis : « services de proximité » contre « petits boulots » ? », Les notes de la Fondation Saint-Simon n°93 (1997)

 

T. Piketty, « Can Fiscal Redistribution Undo Skill-Biased Technical Progress? Evidence from the French Experience”, European Economic Review 43 (1999), pp.839-851

 

J. Pisani-Ferry, « Les chemins du plein emploi », in Plein emploi, Rapport du Conseil d’Analyse Economique n°30 (décembre 2000)

 

(cf. également numéro spécial d’Economie et Statistiques sur « Le RMI, entre redistributions et incitations » (n°346-347, 2001), Rapport 2001 du Cerc sur « Accès à l’emploi et protection sociale », etc.)

 

 

C5. Parents et enfants

 

D. Acemoglu et J. Angrist, « How Large Are Human Capital Externalities ? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Laws”, mimeo, MIT, 2000

 

J. Albrecht, A. Björklund et S. Vroman, “Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?“, mimeo, Stockholm, 2001 [Albrecht et al 2001]

 

S. Aura, “Does the Balance of Power Within a Family Matter? The Case of the Retirement Equity Act”, mimeo, 2001, MIT

 

R. Aaberge, A. Björklund, M. Jäntti, M. Palme, P.J. Pedersen, M. Smith et T. Wennemo, “Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries compared to the United States”, mimeo, Stockholm, 2000 [Aaberge et al 2000]

 

J. Angrist, E. Bettinger, E. Bloom, E. King et M. Kremer, “Vouchers for Private Schooling in Columbia: Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment”, NBER Working Paper n°8343 (June 2001) [Angrist et al 2001]

 

J. Angrist et W. Evans, “Children and Their Parents’ Labor Supply : Evidence from Exogeneous Variations in Family Size”, American Economic Review 88(3), pp.450-477 (January 1998) [Angrist-Evans 1998]

 

S. Barbaro, “The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education – Evidence from Germany”, mimeo, Goettingen, 2002 [Barbaro 2002]

 

G. Bertola et D. Checchi, « Sorting and Private Education in Italy », CEPR Discussion Paper n°3198 (February 2002) [Bertola-Checchi 2002]

 

A. Björklund, T. Eriksson, M. Jäntti, O. Raaum et E. Österbacka, “Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States“, mimeo, Stockholm, 2000 [Bjorklund et al 2000]

 

J. Blanden, A. Goodman, P. Gregg et S. Machin, “Changes in Intergenerational Mobility in Britain”, mimeo, UCL, 2001 [Blanden et al 2001]

 

F.D. Blau et L.M. Kahn, “Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap”, NBER Working Paper n°8200 (April 2001) [Blau-Kahn 2001b]

 

D. Checchi, A. Ichino et Aldo Rustichini, “More Equal but Less Mobile ? Education Financing and Intergenerational Mobility in Italy and the U.S.”, Journal of Public Economics 74 (3), 351-393 (December 1999)

 

D. Checchi et V. Dardanoni, « Mobility Comparisons : Does using Different Measures Matter ? », mimeo, Milan, 2002 [Checchi-Dardanoni 2002]

 

P.A. Chiappori, B. Fortin et G. Lacroix, « Marriage Market, Divorce Legislation and Household Labor Supply », Journal of Political Economy 2002 [Chiappori-Fortin-Lacroix 2001]

 

P.A. Chiappori and Y. Weiss, “Marriage Contracts and Divorce: An Equilibrium Analysis”, mimeo, Chicago, 2000 [Chiappori-Weiss 2000]

 

D. Cogneau, E. Maurin et L. Pasquier (2002), « Social Mobility in Africa – A Comparative Analysis of Five Sub-Saharan Countries », mimeo, Crest [Cogneau et al 2002]

 

D. Cutler et E. Glaeser, « Are Ghettos Good or Bad ? », Quarterly Journal of Economics (August 1997) [Cutler-Glaeser 1997]

 

(*) J.J. Donohue et S.D. Levitt, “The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 116 (2) (May 2001), pp.379-401 [Donohue-Levitt 2001]

 

E. Duflo, “Child Health and Household Ressources in South Africa: Evidence from the Old Age Pension Program”, American Economic Review 90 (2) (May 2000), pp.393-398 (version longue: “Grandmothers and granddaughters: Old Age Pension and Intra-Household Allocation in South Africa”, NBER Working Paper n°8061 (December 2000) [Duflo 2000] )

 

E. Duflo, “Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia: Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment”, American Economic Review 91 (4) (September 2001), pp.909-926 [Duflo 2001]

 

R. Erikson et J. Goldthorpe, The Constant Flux – A Study of Class Mobility in Industrial Societies, Oxford University Press 1993

 

M. Euriat et C. Thélot, « Le recrutement social de l’élite scolaire en France », Revue Française de Sociologie 36 (3) (1995), pp.403-438

 

C. Goldin et L.F. Katz, “The Power of the Pill: Oral Contraceptives and Women’s Career and Marriage Decisions”, NBER Working Paper n°7527 (February 2000)

 

D. Goux et E. Maurin, «  », Annales d’économie et de statistique 1999

 

D. Goux et E. Maurin, “The Effect of Overcrowded Housing on Children’s Performance at School”, mimeo, CREST, 2001 [Goux-Maurin 2001]

 

N. Grawe, “Quantile Regressions Measures of Mobility in the U.S. and Abroad”, mimeo, Chicago, 2001 [Grawe 2001]

 

J. Gruber, “Is Making Divorce Easier Bad For Children? The Long Run Implications of Unilateral Divorce”, NBER Working Paper n°7968 (October 2000) [Gruber 2000]

 

T. Joyce, “Did Legalized Abortion Lower Crime?”, NBER Working Paper n°8319 (June 2001) [Joyce 2001]

 

E. Maurin, “The Impact of Parental Income on Early Schooling Transitions: A Re-Examination Using Data over Three Generations”, mimeo, CREST, 2001 [Maurin 2001]

 

S. Mayer et L. Lopoo, « Has the Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Status Changed ? », mimeo, Chicago, 2001 [Mayer-Lopoo 2001] [MayerLopoo2001.xls]

 

C.B. Mulligan, Parental Priorities and Economic Inequalities, Chicago University Press, 1997

 

(*) C.B. Mulligan, “Galton versus the Human Capital Approach to Inheritance”, Journal of Political Economy 107 (6-2) (December 1999), pp.S184-S224

 

T. Piketty, “Self-Fulfilling Beliefs About Social Status”, Journal of Public Economics 70 (1998), pp.115-132

 

T. Piketty, “Theories of Persistent Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility”, in Handbook of Income Distribution (chapitre 8, pp.429-476), édité par Tony Atkinson and François Bourguignon, North-Holland, 2000

 

C. Pop-Eleches, “Socio-economic outcomes of unwanted children: Evidence from a change in abortion legislation in Romania”, mimeo, Harvard, 2002 [Pop-Eleches 2002]

 

J. Shea, “Does Parents’ Money Matter?”, Journal of Public Economics 77 (2), pp.155-184 (2000)

 

B. Stevenson et J. Wolfers (2000), « ‘Till Death Do Us Part : Effects of Divorce Laws on Suicide, Domestic Violence and Spousal Murder », mimeo, Harvard, 2000 [Stevenson-Wolfers 2000]

 

S. Susin, “Rent Vouchers and the Price of Low Income Housing”, Journal of Public Economics 83, pp.109-152 (2002) 

 

L.A. Vallet, “Diplôme féminin et carrière masculine : le sens d’une corrélation », Revue Française de Sociologie 36 (1) (1995), pp.143-170

 

L.A. Vallet, “Quarante années de mobilité sociale“, Revue française de sociologie 40 (1), 1999