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Recent Marginal Labor Income Tax Rate Changes by Skill and Marital Status
Mulligan, Casey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper calculates monthly time series for the overall safety net's statutory marginal labor income tax rate as a function of skill and marital status. Marginal tax rates increased significantly for all groups between 2007 and 2009, and dramatically so for unmarried household heads. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969427
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Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients
Chetty, Raj; Saez, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
This paper tests whether providing information about the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects EITC recipients' earnings decisions. We conducted a randomized experiment with 43,000 EITC recipients at H&R Block in which tax preparers gave simple, personalized information about the EITC schedule...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575254
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The Effect of Anticipated Tax Changes on Intertemporal Labor Supply and the Realization of Taxable Income
Singhal, Monica; Looney, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
. We estimate an intertemporal elasticity of family labor earnings of 0.75 for families earning between $35,000 and $85 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777787
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The Effect of Marginal Tax Rates on Income: A Panel Study of 'Bracket Creep'
Saez, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1999
This paper uses a panel of individual tax returns and the `bracket creep' as source of tax rate variation to construct instrumental variables estimates of the sensitivity of income to changes in tax rates. From 1979 to 1981, the US income tax schedule was fixed in nominal terms while inflation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778671
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Targeted Savings and Labor Supply
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Substantial evidence suggests that savings behavior may depart from neoclassical optimization. This article examines the implications of raising the savings rate - whether through social security, retirement plans, or otherwise - for labor supply, where labor supply is determined by behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619308
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Work Incentives and the Food Stamp Program
Hoynes, Hilary Williamson; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Labor supply theory makes strong predictions about how the introduction of a social welfare program impacts work effort … extensive and intensive margins of labor supply, earnings, and family cash income. Consistent with theory, we find modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622316
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A Shred of Credible Evidence on the Long Run Elasticity of Labor Supply
Ashenfelter, Orley; Doran, Kirk B.; Schaller, Bruce - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
assumptions about the long run effect of wages rates on labor supply. The available estimates of the wage elasticity of male labor … which men can change their hours of work, and in which wages have been exogenously and permanently changed. We introduce a … function. Our estimates suggest that the elasticity of labor supply is about -0.2, implying that income effects dominate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008635924
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The Marriage Market, Labor Supply and Education Choice
Meghir, Costas; Chiappori, Pierré-Andre; Dias, Monica Costa - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
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Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions
Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
A central justification for social insurance and for other policies aimed at retirement savings is that individuals may fail to make adequate provision during their working years. Much research has focused on myopia and other behavioral limitations. Yet little attention has been devoted to how...
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Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy
Manski, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
, and public goods. Standard theory, which supposes that persons want more income and more leisure, does not predict how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009421974