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Research Economist
Marina Gindelsky
Education
Using the Distribution of Personal Income constructed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis for U.S. households (2007–2018), I use a National Accounts framework to show that transfers significantly lower inequality between households by redistributing income from non-elderly households to elderly households. Social security and Medicare are the most significant transfers, responsible for two third of the overall inequality reduction, substantially more than income-based transfers for most households. Transfers do not significantly reduce inequality between racial groups overall. As the population ages, transfers have increased as a share of income for all races; yet, inequality persists at a high level.
Marina Gindelsky
Economic Inquiry
In the historical literature, cities of the Industrial Revolution (IR) are portrayed as having a demographic penalty: killer cities with high death rates and industrious cities with low birth rates. To econometrically test this, we construct a novel data set of almost 2000 crude demographic rates for 142 large cities in 35 countries for 1700–1950. Mortality actually decreased faster than fertility during the IR era and rates of natural increase rose in the cities of industrializing countries, especially large cities. This implies a declining, not rising, demographic penalty thanks to the IR. To explain the puzzle, we posit that negative health and industriousness effects of industrial urbanization might have been outweighed by positive effects of increased income and life expectancy.
Marina Gindelsky and Remi Jedwab
Journal of Economic Geography
The Feasibility of a Quarterly Distribution of Personal Income (PDF)
Dennis J. Fixler , Marina Gindelsky , and Robert Kornfeld
Accounting for Land in the U.S.: Integrating Physical Land Cover, Land Use, and…
Scott Wentland , Zachary Ancona , Kenneth J Bagstad , James W Boyd , Julie L Hass , Marina Gindelsky , and Jeremy G. Moulton
Measuring Inequality in the National Accounts (PDF)
Dennis J. Fixler , Marina Gindelsky , and David Johnson
Distributing Personal Income: Trends Over Time
Dennis J. Fixler , Marina Gindelsky , and David Johnson
Valuing Housing Services in the Era of Big Data: A User Cost Approach Leveragin…
Marina Gindelsky , Jeremy G. Moulton , and Scott Wentland
Improving the Measure of the Distribution of Personal Income
Dennis J. Fixler , Marina Gindelsky , and David Johnson
Improving the Measure of the Distribution of Personal Income (PDF)
Dennis J. Fixler , Marina Gindelsky , and David Johnson
Modeling and Forecasting Income Inequality in the United States (PDF)
Marina Gindelsky
Towards a Distribution of Household Income: Linking Survey Data to Administrati…
Dennis J. Fixler , Marina Gindelsky , and David Johnson
Testing the acculturation of the 1.5 generation in the United States: Is there …
Marina Gindelsky
Demography, urbanization and development: Rural push, urban pull and…urban push?
Marina Gindelsky
Determinants of Bilingualism Among Children
Marina Gindelsky
Poverty and Shared Prosperity in Uruguay
Marina Gindelsky