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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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Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions

Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

A central justification for social insurance and for other policies aimed at retirement savings is that individuals may fail to make adequate provision during their working years. Much research has focused on myopia and other behavioral limitations. Yet little attention has been devoted to how...

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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 economic value of marriage and on preferences. Equilibrium in the marriage …

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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 supply in the literature have varied between -0.2 and...

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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

We use anticipated changes in tax rates associated with changes in family composition to estimate intertemporal labor supply elasticities and elasticities of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax wage rate. Changes in the ages of children can affect marginal tax rates through provisions...

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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

This paper uses a panel of individual tax returns and the `bracket creep' as source of tax rate variation to construct instrumental variables estimates of the sensitivity of income to changes in tax rates. From 1979 to 1981, the US income tax schedule was fixed in nominal terms while inflation...

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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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Targeted Savings and Labor Supply

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

Substantial evidence suggests that savings behavior may depart from neoclassical optimization. This article examines the implications of raising the savings rate - whether through social security, retirement plans, or otherwise - for labor supply, where labor supply is determined by behavioral...

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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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Empirical Determinants of Intertemporal Choice

Brown, Jeffrey Robert; Ivković, Zoran; Weisbenner, Scott - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study the empirical determinants of intertemporal choice by analyzing a unique decision Croatian retirees made recently about whether to accept an immediate pension payment or a larger stream of delayed payments. Individual decisions are correlated in sensible ways with income, liquidity...

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