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Health responses to a wealth shock: Evidence from a Swedish tax reform

Erixson, Oscar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

This essay contributes in two ways to the literature on the effects of economic circumstances on health. First, it deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by the unexpected repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax....

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Nonparametric Estimation of Labor Supply Functions Generated by Piece Wise Linear Budget Constraints

Blomquist, S.; Newey, W. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997

The basic idea in this paper is that labor supply can be viewed as a function of the entire budget set, so that one way to account non-parametrically for a nonlinear budget set is to estimate a nonparametric regression where the variable in the regression is the budget set. In the special case...

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On Household Wealth Trends in Sweden over the 1990s

Klevmarken, N. Anders - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003

is argued that private life-cycle savings have been small in Sweden. Most of these savings have been done though the …

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Nonparametric Estimation of Labor Supply Functions Generated by Piece Wise Linear Budget Constraints

Blomquist, Sören; Newey, Whitney - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997

Sweden hasincreased labor supply by a small but economically important amount. …

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Why is the Corporation Tax Not Neutral? Anticipated Tax Reform, Investment Spurts and Corporate Borrowing

Alvarez JR, Luis; Kanniainen, Vesa; Södersten, Jan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

The paper shows that a corporate tax policy which is thought to be neutral may have significant incentive effects. This result is established in a model with tax advantage to debt and expectations about a forthcoming tax reform. Investment spurt effects are established and compared to those of a...

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Estimating Income Responses to Tax Changes: A Dynamic Panel Data Approach

Holmlund, Bertil; Söderström, Martin - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate, i.e., one minus the marginal tax <p> rate. We offer new evidence on this matter by making use of a large panel of Swedish tax payers over the period 1991-2002. Changes in statutory tax rates as well as discretionary changes in tax...</p>

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Estates, bequests, and inheritances in Sweden - A look into the Belinda databases

Elinder, Mikael; Erixson, Oscar; Escobar, Sebastian; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

regarding intergenerational transfers in Sweden, including the inheritance law and the inheritance tax. …

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Voter Turnout and the Size of Government

Aggeborn, Linuz - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

Finnish municipal data are used and a constitutional change in Sweden in 1970 is applied as an instrument for voter turnout in … local elections. In 1970, Sweden moved from having separate election days for different levels of government,among other … constitutional reform increased voter turnout in local elections in Sweden. The overall conclusion of this paper is that higher voter …

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Voter Turnout and the Size of Government

Aggeborn, Linuz - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

Finnish municipal data are used and a constitutional change in Sweden in 1970 is applied as an instrument for voter turnout in … local elections. In 1970, Sweden moved from having separate election days for different levels of government, among other … constitutional reform increased voter turnout in local elections in Sweden. The overall conclusion of this paper is that higher voter …

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Consumption and Savings Over the Life Cycle.

Ekman, E. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1996

During the last decade most western economies have experienced large and unexpected fluctuations in consumption and savings. The purpose of this paper is to provide additional insights into the individual household's consumption decision and thereby increase the knowledge of what governs these...

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