Peter J Lambert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5730177 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Peter J Lambert |
| PRENOMES | Peter J |
| SOBRENOME | Lambert |
| ASSINATURA | LAMBERT P J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oregon |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Inequality decomposition analysis, the Lorenz curve and the Gini coefficient
Within-Group Inequality
Is there More Redistribution Now? A Review of Methods for Evaluating Tax Redistributional Effects
When the Norwegian center-left government asked us to evaluate their tax redistributional efforts during their time in office (2005-2013), we faced a literature that offers a number of possible ways to do this. Studies vary along several dimensions, such as with respect to the definition of individual well-being, and how distinctly the contributions from tax policy effects are identified. In this paper we discuss various approaches that can be us…
Counterfactual Decomposition of Pro-Poorness Using Influence Functions
Poverty reduction has emerged as a fundamental social objective of development, and has become a metric commonly used to assess the performance of public policy. This paper adapts the methodology of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009) [2009. “Unconditional Quantile Regressions.” Econometrica 77 (3): 953–973] to the measurement of the pro-poorness of income growth. The method allows the analyst to identify covariates that affect poverty reduction. Th…
Structural progression measures for dual income tax systems
The 1913 paper of René Gâteaux, upon which the modern-day influence function is based
Optimal control of inequality under uncertainty
The Inconsistency Between Measurement and Policy Instruments in Family Income Taxation
There is an inconsistency between the way income tax progressivity is measured and the policy instruments typically used by the income tax authorities. This inconsistency leads to violation of Feldstein's principle of horizontal equity and causes unintentional reranking among families of different sizes. Implications are considered. In particular, we provide a methodology for measuring the magnitude of the unintentional reranking in terms of forg…
Taking care of your own
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between measures of ethnic and religious heterogeneity on the one hand and measures of inequality and redistribution on the other, using state‐level US data. Design/methodology/approach The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary least squares (OLS) and then with generalized method of moments (GMM). Th…
Mini-symposium on the Shapley value
Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme’s paper “The origins of the Gini index
James Foster and Michael Wolfson’s 1992 paper “Polarization and the decline of the middle class”
Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk’s 1995 paper ‘Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the US
Miodrag Tomić’s 1949 article on inequalities
Tony Atkinson's 1973 manuscript “More on the measurement of inequality”
Mini-symposium
Measuring The Pro-Poorness Of Income Growth Within An Elasticity Framework
Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a measure of pro-poorness defined as a weighted average of the deviation of a growth patt…
The effect on inequality of changing one or two incomes
We examine the effect on inequality of increasing one income, and show that for two wide classes of indices a benchmark income level or position exists, dividing upper from lower incomes, such that if a lower income is raised, inequality falls, and if an upper income is raised, inequality rises. We provide a condition on the inequality orderings implicit in two inequality indices under which the one has a lower benchmark than the other for all un…
On bounded dominance criteria
Welfare Comparisons
Some analysts use sequential dominance criteria, and others use equivalence scales in combination with non‐sequential dominance tests, to make welfare comparisons of joint distributions of income and needs. In this paper we present a new sequential procedure which copes with situations in which sequential dominance fails. We also demonstrate that the recommendations deriving from the sequential approach are valid for distributions of equivalent i…
Measuring Income Tax Discrimination
We propose a procedure for measuring the effect of systematic discrimination in the income tax. Different socioeconomic groups are assumed to face different tax schedules. We show that a welfare loss is caused by the group specificity of schedules, the dollar value of which is our measure of discrimination. Defining vertical equity as the dollar value of the tax system's welfare superiority over an equal yield flat tax, discrimination equates to …
Three 'I's of Poverty Curves, With an Analysis of Uk Poverty Trends
Three ‘I’s of Poverty (TIP) curves, based on distributions of poverty gaps, provide evocative graphical summaries of the incidence, intensity, and inequality dimensions of poverty, and a means for checking for unanimous poverty orderings according to a wide class of poverty indices. The orderings may be robust to variations in the deflator used to make nominal incomes comparable. An analysis of poverty in the UK during the 1980s demonstrates thes…
Redistributive Effect and Unequal Income Tax Treatment
Decomposing the post-tax Gini coefficient across groups of pre-tax equals reveals the separate contributions to the redistributive effect of an income tax of: (i) the effective schedule (we call this the 'vertical effect'), (ii) the unequal treatment of equals arising from departures from this effective schedule (the 'horizontal effect') and (iii) the reranking of unequals as a result of such departures (the 'reranking effect'). The methodology i…
Inequality Reduction Through the Income Tax
Income taxation typically has an inequality-reducing impact. This would be explained by theory were it the case that all income units were taxed according to a common progressive schedule. But this is not so; we lack a theoretical explanation for the observed finding. This paper explains how income taxes that take nonincome attributes (such as marital status) into account can act to reduce overall income inequality. Copyright 1993 by The London S…
Inequality Decomposition Analysis and the Gini Coefficient Revisited
Journal Article Inequality Decomposition Analysis and the Gini Coefficient Revisited Get access Peter J. Lambert, Peter J. Lambert University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Richard Aronson J. Richard Aronson Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 420, 1 September 1993, Pages 1221–1227, https://doi.org/10…
Inequality Decomposition Analysis and the Gini Coefficient Revisited
Journal Article Inequality Decomposition Analysis and the Gini Coefficient Revisited Get access Peter J. Lambert, Peter J. Lambert University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Richard Aronson J. Richard Aronson Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 420, 1 September 1993, Pages 1221–1227, https://doi.org/10…
Redistributive Effect and Unequal Income Tax Treatment
Decomposing the post-tax Gini coefficient across groups of pre-tax equals reveals the separate contributions to the redistributive effect of an income tax of: (i) the effective schedule (we call this the 'vertical effect'), (ii) the unequal treatment of equals arising from departures from this effective schedule (the 'horizontal effect') and (iii) the reranking of unequals as a result of such departures (the 'reranking effect'). The methodology i…
On the Redistributive Effect of Taxes and Benefits
Evaluating Income Tax Revenue Elasticities
Journal Article Evaluating Income Tax Revenue Elasticities Get access J. P. Hutton, J. P. Hutton University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P. J. Lambert P. J. Lambert University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 360, 1 December 1980, Pages 901–906, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231749 Published: 01 December 1980
The effect on inequality of changing one or two incomes
We examine the effect on inequality of increasing one income, and show that for two wide classes of indices a benchmark income level or position exists, dividing upper from lower incomes, such that if a lower income is raised, inequality falls, and if an upper income is raised, inequality rises. We provide a condition on the inequality orderings implicit in two inequality indices under which the one has a lower benchmark than the other for all un…
Welfare Comparisons
Some analysts use sequential dominance criteria, and others use equivalence scales in combination with non‐sequential dominance tests, to make welfare comparisons of joint distributions of income and needs. In this paper we present a new sequential procedure which copes with situations in which sequential dominance fails. We also demonstrate that the recommendations deriving from the sequential approach are valid for distributions of equivalent i…
Modelling the Effects of Income Growth and Discretionary Change on the Sensitivity of UK Income Tax Revenue
Journal Article Modelling the Effects of Income Growth and Discretionary Change on the Sensitivity of UK Income Tax Revenue Get access J. P. Hutton, J. P. Hutton University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P. J. Lambert P. J. Lambert University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 365, 1 March 1982, Pages 145–155, htt…
Commodity Concentration and Export Earnings Instability
Journal Article Commodity Concentration and Export Earnings Instability: A Comment Get access R. E. Turner, R. E. Turner Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P. J. Lambert P. J. Lambert Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 363, 1 Septemb…
Counterfactual Decomposition of Pro-Poorness Using Influence Functions
Poverty reduction has emerged as a fundamental social objective of development, and has become a metric commonly used to assess the performance of public policy. This paper adapts the methodology of Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2009) [2009. “Unconditional Quantile Regressions.” Econometrica 77 (3): 953–973] to the measurement of the pro-poorness of income growth. The method allows the analyst to identify covariates that affect poverty reduction. Th…
Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme’s paper “The origins of the Gini index
Inequality Reduction Through the Income Tax
Income taxation typically has an inequality-reducing impact. This would be explained by theory were it the case that all income units were taxed according to a common progressive schedule. But this is not so; we lack a theoretical explanation for the observed finding. This paper explains how income taxes that take nonincome attributes (such as marital status) into account can act to reduce overall income inequality. Copyright 1993 by The London S…
Macroeconomics with Non-Perfect Competition
Journal Article Macroeconomics with Non-Perfect Competition: A Comment Get access Brian Hillier, Brian Hillier University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Lambert, Peter Lambert Science Policy Research Unit Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Roy Turner Roy Turner University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Relative Deprivation and the Gini Coefficient
John D. Hey, Peter J. Lambert; Relative Deprivation and the Gini Coefficient: Comment, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 95, Issue 3, 1 November 1980
Evaluating Income Tax Revenue Elasticities
Journal Article Evaluating Income Tax Revenue Elasticities Get access J. P. Hutton, J. P. Hutton University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P. J. Lambert P. J. Lambert University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 90, Issue 360, 1 December 1980, Pages 901–906, https://doi.org/10.2307/2231749 Published: 01 December 1980
Commodity Concentration and Export Earnings Instability
Journal Article Commodity Concentration and Export Earnings Instability: A Comment Get access R. E. Turner, R. E. Turner Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P. J. Lambert P. J. Lambert Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 363, 1 Septemb…
The Elasticity of the U.S. Individual Income Tax
Albert Fries, John P. Hutton, Peter J. Lambert, The Elasticity of the U.S. Individual Income Tax: Its Calculation, Determinants and Behavior, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Feb., 1982), pp. 147-151
Modelling the Effects of Income Growth and Discretionary Change on the Sensitivity of UK Income Tax Revenue
Journal Article Modelling the Effects of Income Growth and Discretionary Change on the Sensitivity of UK Income Tax Revenue Get access J. P. Hutton, J. P. Hutton University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar P. J. Lambert P. J. Lambert University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 365, 1 March 1982, Pages 145–155, htt…
Macroeconomics with Non-Perfect Competition
Journal Article Macroeconomics with Non-Perfect Competition: A Comment Get access Brian Hillier, Brian Hillier University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Peter Lambert, Peter Lambert Science Policy Research Unit Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Roy Turner Roy Turner University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar …
Inequality and Revenue Elasticity in Tax Reform
Social welfare and the gini coefficient revisited
On the Redistributive Effect of Taxes and Benefits
The Distribution and Redistribution of Income
The 1970s and 1980s brought renewed interest, both theoretic and empirical, in matters of income distribution and redistribution. How may we evaluate trends in income distribution through time, and differences between countries? Is the income tax 'a good thing'? What constitutes an improvement in an income tax
Inequality Reduction Through the Income Tax
Income taxation typically has an inequality-reducing impact. This would be explained by theory were it the case that all income units were taxed according to a common progressive schedule. But this is not so; we lack a theoretical explanation for the observed finding. This paper explains how income taxes that take nonincome attributes (such as marital status) into account can act to reduce overall income inequality. Copyright 1993 by The London S…
Inequality Decomposition Analysis and the Gini Coefficient Revisited
Journal Article Inequality Decomposition Analysis and the Gini Coefficient Revisited Get access Peter J. Lambert, Peter J. Lambert University of York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar J. Richard Aronson J. Richard Aronson Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 103, Issue 420, 1 September 1993, Pages 1221–1227, https://doi.org/10…
Redistributive Effect and Unequal Income Tax Treatment
Decomposing the post-tax Gini coefficient across groups of pre-tax equals reveals the separate contributions to the redistributive effect of an income tax of: (i) the effective schedule (we call this the 'vertical effect'), (ii) the unequal treatment of equals arising from departures from this effective schedule (the 'horizontal effect') and (iii) the reranking of unequals as a result of such departures (the 'reranking effect'). The methodology i…
Three 'I's of Poverty Curves, With an Analysis of Uk Poverty Trends
Three ‘I’s of Poverty (TIP) curves, based on distributions of poverty gaps, provide evocative graphical summaries of the incidence, intensity, and inequality dimensions of poverty, and a means for checking for unanimous poverty orderings according to a wide class of poverty indices. The orderings may be robust to variations in the deflator used to make nominal incomes comparable. An analysis of poverty in the UK during the 1980s demonstrates thes…
Measuring Income Tax Discrimination
We propose a procedure for measuring the effect of systematic discrimination in the income tax. Different socioeconomic groups are assumed to face different tax schedules. We show that a welfare loss is caused by the group specificity of schedules, the dollar value of which is our measure of discrimination. Defining vertical equity as the dollar value of the tax system's welfare superiority over an equal yield flat tax, discrimination equates to …
Welfare Comparisons
Some analysts use sequential dominance criteria, and others use equivalence scales in combination with non‐sequential dominance tests, to make welfare comparisons of joint distributions of income and needs. In this paper we present a new sequential procedure which copes with situations in which sequential dominance fails. We also demonstrate that the recommendations deriving from the sequential approach are valid for distributions of equivalent i…
Measuring The Pro-Poorness Of Income Growth Within An Elasticity Framework
Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a measure of pro-poorness defined as a weighted average of the deviation of a growth patt…
The effect on inequality of changing one or two incomes
We examine the effect on inequality of increasing one income, and show that for two wide classes of indices a benchmark income level or position exists, dividing upper from lower incomes, such that if a lower income is raised, inequality falls, and if an upper income is raised, inequality rises. We provide a condition on the inequality orderings implicit in two inequality indices under which the one has a lower benchmark than the other for all un…
On bounded dominance criteria
Tony Atkinson's 1973 manuscript “More on the measurement of inequality”
Mini-symposium
Miodrag Tomić’s 1949 article on inequalities
James Foster and Michael Wolfson’s 1992 paper “Polarization and the decline of the middle class”
Robert Moffitt and Peter Gottschalk’s 1995 paper ‘Trends in the covariance structure of earnings in the US
Lidia Ceriani and Paolo Verme’s paper “The origins of the Gini index
Economics (28 obras) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (23 obras) · Mathematics (19 obras) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (18 obras) · Inequality (16 obras) · Econometrics (15 obras) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Public economics (10 obras) · Economic inequality (9 obras)