Paul Menchik

By appointment

• Not teaching Spring semester.

• Federal and State Tax and Expenditure policy, e.g. Social Security, Michigan's tax structure
• Issues in household and family economics, e.g. differential mortality by wealth
• Effects of demographic change and tax and expenditure matters
• Wealth accumulation and intergenerational transfers
• The Alternative Minimum Tax

• Primogeniture, Equal Sharing, and the U.S. Distribution of Wealth, (1980) Quarterly Journal of Economics 93: 299-316, (March).

• Income Distribution, Lifetime Savings and Bequests (1983) American Economic Review 73: 672-690 (September) (with Martin David).

• The Distribution of Federal Expenditures, (1991) National Tax Journal 44:269-276.

• Wealth Mobility, (1997), Review of Economics and Statistics, 79: 18-31, (with Nancy Jianakoplos).

• Tax Exporting Through Federal Deductibility of State and Local Taxes (with Charles Ballard), 2005, pp. 26-38, in Proceedings of the National Tax Association.

• Intergenerational Transfers: Are They Intended? (with Nancy Jianakoplos).

• Review of The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform by Estelle James, Alexandra Cox Edwards and Rebecca Wong, in Economic Development and Cultural Change (forthcoming October 2010).

• The State(s) of inequality: Changes in Income Distribution in the U.S. States and Census Divisions, 1976-2008 (with Charles Ballard and Lu Tan).