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The Missing Intercept: A Demand Equivalence Approach

Social Science Research Network, 2021
I give conditions under which changes in private spending are accommodated in general equilibrium exactly like changes in aggregate fiscal expenditure.
Christian K. Wolf
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Childcare, Labor Supply, and Business Development: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We randomly offered a childcare subsidy, an equivalent cash grant, or both to mothers of three-to-five-year-old children. The childcare subsidy substantially increased the labor supply and earnings of single mothers, highlighting the importance of time ...
K. Bjorvatn   +5 more
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Labor Supply Responses and Adjustment Frictions: A Tax-Free Year in Iceland

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Labor income earned in Iceland in 1987 went untaxed. I use this episode to study labor supply responses to temporary wage changes. Using a population-wide dataset of earnings and working time and two identification strategies, I estimate intensive and ...
Jósef Sigurdsson
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Do Consumers Distinguish Fixed Cost from Variable Cost? “Schmeduling” in Two-Part Tariffs in Energy

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
A central assumption in economics is that consumers properly distinguish fixed cost from variable cost. This assumption is fundamental to various economic theories, including optimal taxation, redistribution, and price discrimination.
Koichiro Ito, Shuang Zhang
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Micro versus Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: The Role of Dynamic Returns to Effort

The American Economic Review
We investigate long-run earnings responses to taxes in the presence of dynamic returns to effort. First, we develop a theoretical model of earnings determination with dynamic returns to effort.
H. Kleven   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Trade-Off between Flexibility and Robustness in Instrumental Variables Analysis

The American Economic Review
In additive instrumental variables models, the robustness to some failure of instrumental validity or additive separability depends on the strength of a priori restrictions on the structural relationship between outcomes and treatments.
Ben Deaner
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Higher Taxes at the Top: The Role of Entrepreneurs

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2021
This paper computes optimal top marginal tax rates in Bewley-Huggett-Aiyagari–type economies that include entrepreneurs. Consistent with the data, entrepreneurs are overrepresented at the top of the income distribution and are thus disproportionately ...
Bettina Brueggemann
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Predistribution versus Redistribution: Evidence from France and the United States

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
We construct series of posttax income for France over the 1900–2018 period and compare them with US series. We quantify the extent of redistribution—the reduction from pretax to posttax inequality—and estimate the contribution of redistribution in ...
Antoine Bozio   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Top Incomes in Chile: A Historical Perspective on Income Inequality, 1964–2017

The Review of Income and Wealth, 2020
This paper presents a historical series of Chilean top income shares over a period of almost half a century, mostly using data from tax statistics and national accounts. We distinguish between adjusted (1990-2015) and unadjusted (1964-2015) series.
Ignacio Flores   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Short-Term Tax Cuts, Long-Term Stimulus

Social Science Research Network, 2022
We study the persistent effects of temporary changes in U.S. federal corporate and personal income tax rates using a narrative identification approach.
J. Cloyne   +3 more
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