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payroll taxes and other withholding to fund retirement savings as akin to an income tax, while largely ignoring the distant … not act purely like a tax despite individuals’ non-optimizing savings behavior, and in some cases labor supply actually is …
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This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
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During the 1970s the US underwent an important change in its divorce laws, switching from mutual consent to a unilateral divorce regime. Who benefitted and who lost from this change? To answer this question we develop a dynamic life-cycle model in which agents make consumption, saving, labor...
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The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
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raising the labor income tax rate; under a second, raising the targeted savings rate has no effect on labor supply; and under …
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one-size-fits-all regulation like a sin tax. Of course, Early Decision regulations incur social costs and therefore …
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fair social security have the highly distortionary effect of a tax on top of an existing tax (the income tax) because … respects, even with myopia, social security has qualitatively different effects than those of a tax levied on top of an … existing tax. Both social security and capital taxation may cause labor supply to rise or fall when individuals are myopic …
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We study optimal labor and savings distortions in a lifecycle model with idiosyncratic shocks. We show a tight connection between its recursive formulation and a static Mirrlees model with two goods, which allows us to derive elasticity-based expressions for the dynamic optimal distortions. We...
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This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar … Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We …% inventors are significantly affected by top tax rates when deciding where to locate. The elasticity of the number of domestic …
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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...
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