. Bunching at kinks and notches in a single budget set have been used to estimate the taxable income elasticity. We show that … set. Kinks do provide information about the size of the elasticity when a priori restrictions are placed on the … nonparametric utility with general heterogeneity we show that kinks only provide elasticity information about individuals at the …

. Bunching at kinks and notches in a single budget set have been used to estimate the taxable income elasticity. We show that … set. Kinks do provide information about the size of the elasticity when a priori restrictions are placed on the … nonparametric utility with general heterogeneity we show that kinks only provide elasticity information about individuals at the …

This paper identifies two distinct types of payoff kinks that can be exhibited by preference functions over monetary … exhibiting locally nonseparable payoff kinks; rank-dependent preference functions are incapable of avoiding them. …