The disaggregation of fiscal policies into its components provides a good opportunity to examine the impact of each instrument on inequality. This follows the approach of Salotti and Trecroci (2015) and Cevik and Correa-Caro (2015). The model is run on 145 data points. The dependent variable is the Gini coefficient, as provided by the SWIID Database Version 5.The explanatory variables are as indicated in equations 1 and 2 below.