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Identifying Behavioral Responses to Tax Reforms: New Insights and a New Approach

Jakobsen, Katrine M.; Søgaard, Jakob Egholt - 2020

We revisit the identification of behavioral responses to tax reforms and develop a new approach that allows for … graphical validation of identifying assumptions and representation of treatment effects. Considering typical tax reforms, such …-trend validation of differencesin-differences studies, this identifying assumption of constant trend differentials can be validated by …

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Identifying behavioral responses to tax reforms : new insights and a new approach

Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Søgaard, Jakob Egholt - 2020

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Income Inequality and Fiscal Policy

Coady, David; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

Staff Discussion Notes showcase the latest policy-related analysis and research being developed by individual IMF staff and are published to elicit comment and to further debate. These papers are generally brief and written in nontechnical language, and so are aimed at a broad audience...

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Income Distribution and Tax and Government Social Spending Policies in Developing Countries

Chu, Ke-young; Davoodi, Hamid Reza; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper reviews income distribution in developing (and transition) countries in recent decades. On average, before-tax income distribution in developing countries is less unequal than in industrial countries. However, unlike industrial countries, developing countries in general have not been...

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Labor supply responsiveness to tax reforms

Sigaard, Hans Schytte - 2022

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Urban Water Disinfection and Mortality Decline in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto; Miller, Grant; … - 2017

Historically, improvements in the quality of municipal drinking water made important contributions to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection often does not produce equivalent benefits in developing countries today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing an abrupt,...

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Behavioral Responses to Inheritance and Gift Taxation: Evidence from Germany

Glogowsky, Ulrich - 2020

The desirability of inheritance and gift taxes depends on individuals' tax responsiveness. This paper demonstrates how strongly, and in what way, the German inheritance and gift tax influences taxpayer behavior. To that end, it combines administrative data with cross-bracket tax variation: a...

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Saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic: The benefits of the first Swiss lockdown

Gatti, Nicolò; Retali, Beatrice - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 157 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21

The implementation of a lockdown to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a strong economic and political debate in several countries. This makes it crucial to shed light on the actual benefits of such kind of policy. To this purpose, we focus on the Swiss lockdown during the...

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Behavioral responses to inheritance and gift taxation: Evidence from Germany

Glogowsky, Ulrich - 2020

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Urban water disinfection and mortality decline in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto; Miller, Grant; … - 2017

Historically, improvements municipal drinking water quality contributed significantly to mortality decline in wealthy countries. However, water disinfection has not produced equivalent benefits in developing countries today. We investigate this puzzle by analyzing a large-scale municipal water...

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