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Chetty et al (2014) Data

Data is sourced from federal income tax records from 1996 to 2002, including income tax records (1040 forms) and third-party information returns (such as W-2 forms).
participants include individuals who (i) have a valid Social Security number or individual taxpayer identification number, (ii) were born between 1980 and 1991, and (iii) are U.S. citizens as of 2013.
parents are defined as the first tax filers who claim the child as a child dependent and were between the ages of 15 and 40 when the child was born.
there are approximately 10 million chidren in the core sample
all monetary variabls are adjusted to 2012 dollars
the baseline income measure includes labor earnings and capital income as well as unemployment insurance, Social Security, and disability insurance.
demographic characteristics of the core sample line up closely with corresponding estimates in the Current Population Survey and the American Population Survey.

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