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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...

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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...

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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

changes can be anticipated, allowing us to estimate substitution effects that are not confounded by life-cycle income effects …. We estimate an intertemporal elasticity of family labor earnings of 0.75 for families earning between $35,000 and $85 …

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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

instrumental variables estimates of the sensitivity of income to changes in tax rates. From 1979 to 1981, the US income tax …

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Targeted Savings and Labor Supply

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

taxation. …

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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. Although there is a large literature on the work incentive effects of AFDC and the EITC, relatively little is known about the work incentive effects of the Food Stamp Program...

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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

Virtually all public policies regarding taxation and the redistribution of income rely on explicit or implicit … assumptions about the long run effect of wages rates on labor supply. The available estimates of the wage elasticity of male labor … function. Our estimates suggest that the elasticity of labor supply is about -0.2, implying that income effects dominate …

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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

consumption taxation and income-based transfer programs. For example, might myopic individuals, as a first approximation, view …

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Identification of Preferences and Evaluation of Income Tax Policy

Manski, Charles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

The merits of alternative income tax policies depend on the population distribution of preferences for income, leisure, and public goods. Standard theory, which supposes that persons want more income and more leisure, does not predict how they resolve the tension between these desires. Empirical...

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