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The rich underreport their income

Working Paper 2018-475

Abstract

Do survey respondents misreport their income? If so, how does misreporting correlate

Authors: Sean Higgins, Nora Lustig, Andrea Vigorito .

Keywords: inequality, income underreporting, tax records, household surveys.
JEL: D31, C81.