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- Working Paper
CBO’s analysis of the distribution of household income relies on data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey (CPS). This paper describes how CBO adjusts for the underreporting of government transfers by CPS respondents.
- Report
In 2016, students pursuing higher education received about $91 billion in financial support from federal spending programs and tax expenditures. This report examines the distribution of that assistance among households, by income group.
- Working Paper
This paper examines how a 20 percent depreciation of foreign currencies with respect to the U.S. dollar affects the wealth of U.S. residents and evaluates how that effect would be distributed across U.S. households by income group.
- Report
The Senate Budget Committee convened a hearing at which Director Keith Hall testified about The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028. This document provides CBO’s answers to questions submitted for the record.
- Report
In 2014, average household income before accounting for means-tested transfers and federal taxes was $19,000 for the lowest quintile and $281,000 for the highest quintile. After transfers and taxes, those averages were $31,000 and $207,000.
- Report
CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation provide information about the distributional effects of the conference agreement for H.R. 1.
- Working Paper
CBO’s new framework will use a new measure of income—income before transfers and taxes—to rank households and calculate average means-tested transfer rates and average federal tax rates.
- Presentation
Presentation by Kevin Perese, an analyst in CBO's Tax Analysis Division, at the University of Michigan’s 65th Annual Economic Outlook Conference.
- Working Paper
Data from the Census Bureau linked to individual tax returns are used to obtain demographic and income characteristics of filers and nonfilers; results are compared with those obtained using statistical matches of publicly available data.
- Presentation
Presentation by Kevin Perese and Bilal Habib, analysts in CBO's Tax Analysis Division, at the Distributional Tax Analysis Conference.