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How Tax Records Sharpen the Picture of Top Incomes
By @unequalworlds
Why household surveys miss the very top Measuring income at the very top of the distribution is notoriously difficult. Standard household surveys, which form the backbone of most income statistics, are not designed to capture the incomes of the richest households. The reasons are partly practical and partly structural. The very wealthy are a small group, so a random national sample of a few thousand households will include very few of them, if any. Those who are included o
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