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type="main" xml:id="ecin12172-abs-0001"> <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p xml:id="ecin12172-para-0001"><fi>This paper assesses the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality over around three decades, from 1979 to 2007. It applies a new method for decomposing changes in government redistribution into (1) a direct policy effect resulting from policy changes and (2) the effects of changing market incomes. Over the period as a whole, the tax policy changes increased income inequality by pushing up the income share of high-income earners (the top 20%)</fi>. (<fi>JEL</fi> H23, H31, H53, P16)