https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/gustavo-ventura/Gustavo VenturaHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/means-tested-transfers-in-the-us-facts-and-parametric-estimates/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/means-tested-transfers-in-the-us-facts-and-parametric-estimates/<p>Guner, Rauh, and Ventura document the scope, generosity, distributional impact, and time evolution of means-tested transfers to working-age US households, and provide parametric estimates of transfer functions for use in applied macroeconomics and public finance. The paper addresses three questions: How large are these transfers? How do they affect income inequality? How have they changed over time? The contribution is descriptive and empirical rather than structural; the paper does not estimate behavioral effects but rather characterizes the effective transfer schedule that households face.</p>