Distributional Haig-Simons Income Accounts for U.S. Households, 2000-2019

Roth, Steve (2022): Distributional Haig-Simons Income Accounts for U.S. Households, 2000-2019.

Abstract

This paper and the accompanying Excel workbook present the Distributional Comprehensive Household Income Accounts (DCHIAs), an open-access data series of Haig-Simons income for U.S. households, 2000–2019. The series is derived from publicly available national-accounts data, and is balance-sheet-complete; it fully explains changes in household (and hence national) assets and net worth from year to year and across the two-decade period. A prototype distributional breakdown is provided for all measures and submeasures, by income quintile.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: income; wealth; assets; liabilities; net worth; haig-simons; national accounts; personal income; NIPA; flow of funds; inequality; equality; labor income; property income; IMA; integrated macroeconomic accounts; SNA; system of national accounts; distribution; capital gains; holding gains; realized; accrued
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C8 - Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology ; Computer Programs > C82 - Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data ; Data Access; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E0 - General > E01 - Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth ; Environmental Accounts; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E21 - Consumption ; Saving ; Wealth; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E25 - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

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