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taxes at the core. Additional topics addressed include a range of dynamic issues, the unit of taxation, tax administration …
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Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
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In 1954, the Internal Revenue Service stipulated that employer contributions to the health insurance plans of their employees were to be excluded from employee taxable income. Today, the tax subsidy is major feature of the U.S. health care market. This paper examines the initial effects of the...
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. We document the changes in federal and state income taxes, AFDC and Food Stamp benefits, Medicaid, training and child …
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This paper characterizes the dynamic effects of shocks in government spending and taxes on economic activity in the … the automatic response of taxes and spending to activity, and, by implication, to infer fiscal shocks. The results … negative effect. The multipliers for both spending and tax shocks are typically small. Turning to the effects of taxes and …
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This paper studies the extent to which the impact of tax policy on consumer spending differs between temporary and permanent, as well as anticipated and unanticipated tax changes. To discriminate between them, we use institutional information such as legal distinction between temporary and...
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desirable directions, but it also makes Pigovian taxes on negative externalities less effective …
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In this survey, I summarize and evaluate the extant literature concerning taxation and personal saving. I describe the theoretical models that economists have used to depict saving decisions, and I explore the positive and normative implications of these models. The central positive question is...
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from taxes on intermediate inputs or consumer goods, and derives a practical alternative to this formula. We use an … analytically tractable general equilibrium model to reveal how interactions with pre-existing taxes in other markets critically … affect the excess burden of new taxes on intermediate inputs or consumer goods. The usual excess-burden formula ignores these …
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