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Intergenerational Fiscal Constitutions : How to Protect Future Generations Using Land Taxes and Federalism

Conley, John P. - 2001

This paper studies how to design a fiscal constitution that, by capitalizing intergenerational spillovers into land values, is able to protect future generations from expropriation and to generate optimal investment in intergenerational public goods. In particular, we study how to accomplish...

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Fiscal Federalism and the Role of the Income Tax

Gordon, Roger H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper rethinks the design of the income tax by assuming that the objective of the tax is not to redistribute from rich to poor but instead to provide some insurance to individuals against the uncertainties they face in their future earnings, a motivation for the tax proposed in Buchanan...

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The Effects of Fiscal Decentralization on Publicly Provided Services and Labor Markets

Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela; Martino, Enrica Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the fiscal autonomy of Italian municipalities by replacing government transfers with revenues from a local property tax. Our identifica- tion leverages cross-municipal variation in the...

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Fiscal Federalism and the Budget Impacts of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid Expansion

Gruber, Jonathan - 2020

Medicaid's federal-state matching system of financing is the nation's largest example of fiscal federalism. Using generous federal subsidies, the Affordable Care Act incentivized states to expand Medicaid, which became a state option in the aftermath of a 2012 Supreme Court ruling. As of early...

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Anchoring Fiscal Expectations

Leeper, Eric M. - 2009

In this lecture, I argue that there are remarkable parallels between how monetary and fiscal policies operate on the macro economy and that these parallels are sufficient to lead us to think about transforming fiscal policy and fiscal institutions as many countries have transformed monetary...

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The Evolution of High Incomes in Canada, 1920-2000

Saez, Emmanuel - 2003

This paper presents new homogeneous series on top shares of income from 1920 to 2000 in Canada using personal income … top income shares in Canada and the United States, associated with much more modest marginal tax rate cuts in Canada …, suggests that the upward trend in top shares in Canada since the late 1970s cannot be explained by tax cuts. Further evidence …

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Taxation and Top Incomes in Canada

Milligan, Kevin - 2014

income concentration in Canada …

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Domestic Violence and Income : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit

Cesur, Resul; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Roff, Jennifer; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using Difference-in-Differences models, we estimate the impact of an exogenous increase in income on the incidence and intensity of intimate partner violence (IPV). Using National Crime Victimization Survey data from 1992 to 2000, we exploit time and family-size variation in the Earned Income...

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Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for State Government Tax Revenues

Clemens, Jeffrey - 2020

We assess the Covid-19 pandemic's implications for state government sales and income tax revenues. We estimate that the economic declines implied by recent forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office will lead to a shortfall of roughly $106 billion in states' sales and income tax revenues for...

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Behavioral Responses to Taxes : Lessons from the EITC and Labor Supply

Eissa, Nada - 2005

Twenty-two million families currently receive a total of $34 billion dollars in benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In fact, the EITC is the largest cash transfer program for lower-income families at the federal level. An unusual feature of the credit is its explicit goal to use...

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