Charley Ballard

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• Computational general equilibrium analysis of tax and trade policies
• Analysis of Michigan's economy and tax system
• Econometric analysis of trends in income inequality in different regions of the United States
• Econometric analysis of misperceptions of tax rates

• "Perceptions and Realities of Average Tax Rates in the Federal Income Tax: Evidence from Michigan" (with Sanjay Gupta). National Tax Journal 71 (June, 2018): 263-294.

• "The State(s) of Income Inequality: Changes in Income Distribution in the U.S. States and the District of Columbia, 1976-2008" (with Paul L. Menchik and Lu Tan). Journal of Income Distribution 22 (June, 2013): 25-59.

• "Basic Math Skills and Performance in an Introductory Economics Class" (with Marianne F. Johnson). Journal of Economic Education 35 (Winter, 2003): 3-23.

• Financing Universal Health Care in the United States: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Efficiency and Distributional Effects (with John H. Goddeeris). National Tax Journal 52 (March, 1999): 31-52.

• General Equilibrium Computations of the Marginal Welfare Costs of Taxation in the United States (with John B. Shoven and John Whalley). American Economic Review, 75 (March, 1985): 128-138.

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• "Decreasing Property Values and the Resulting Changes in the Benefits of the Taxable Value Cap: Evidence from Michigan" (with Timothy R. Hodge and Mark Skidmore). Revised resubmission being prepared for Public Finance and Management.

• "The Fall and Rise of Income Inequality in the United States: Economic Trends and Political-Economy Explanations." Publication expected, in 2019, in Tobin Craig, Steven Kautz, and Arthur Melzer (eds.), Inequality and Democracy in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

• Northern Losses and Southern Gains: Regional Variation in the Evolution of Black/White Earnings Differences in the United States, 1976-2017, Charles L. Ballard and John H. Goddeeris

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