Shanthi Ramnath

Overview

U.S. Treasury Department (Office of Tax Analysis) economist specializing in tax policy, income distribution, and administrative data. Co-author of DeBacker et al. (2013), which used a confidential IRS panel of tax returns to decompose U.S. earnings inequality into permanent and transitory components.

Key Contributions / Features

• DeBacker et al. (2013): first application of error-components framework to U.S. administrative IRS panel; permanent-inequality finding

Related

• Income Dynamics
• Jason DeBacker
• Bradley Heim
• Vasia Panousi
• Ivan Vidangos

Sources

• DeBacker et al. 2013 — Rising Inequality Transitory or Persistent New Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Tax Returns