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Estimating income responses to tax changes : a dynamic panel data approach

Holmlund, Bertil (contributor); … - 2007

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Bunching and non-bunching at kink points of the Swedish tax schedule

Bastani, Spencer; Selin, Håkan - 2012

Recent microeconometric studies of taxpayer' responsiveness to taxation have shown that intensive margin labor supply and earnings elasticities typically are modest and sometimes equal to zero. However, a common view is that long-run responses might still be large since micro-estimates are...

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Per-capita income as a determinant of international trade and environmental policies

Markusen, James R. - 2014

International trade policy analysis has tended to focus on the production side of general equilibrium, with policies such as a tariff or carbon tax affecting international and internal income distributions through a Heckscher-Ohlin nexus of factor intensities and factor endowments. Here I move...

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Health care expenditure and income : a global perspective

Baltagi, Badi H.; Lagravinese, Raffaele; Moscone, Francesco - 2016

This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world using data on 167 countries over the period 1995-2012, collected from the World Bank data set. The analysis is carried using panel data methods that allow one to account for...

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The bunching estimator cannot identify the taxable income elasticity

Blomquist, Nils Sören; Newey, Whitney K. - 2017

Saez (2010) introduced an influential estimator that has become known as the bunching estimator. Using this method one can get an estimate of the taxable income elasticity from the bunching pattern around a kink point. The bunching estimator has become popular, with a large number of papers...

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Heterogeneity in the pass-through from oil to gasoline prices : a new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand

Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2023

We propose a new instrument for estimating the price elasticity of gasoline demand that exploits systematic differences across U.S. states in the pass-through of oil price shocks to retail gasoline prices. We show that these differences are primarily driven by the cost of producing and...

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Using spatial distribution of outlets to estimate gambling incidence

Dahan, Momi - 2017

The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries … merging data on the geographical location of gambling outlets, together with residents' socio-economic and demographic … results and yields a measure of -0.42, which implies that the implicit tax associated with gambling is highly regressive. …

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Poverty and economic behavior : gambling at social security paydays

Dahan, Momi - 2019 - This version: 15/7/2019

outlets in Israel for two years (2015-2016), I find that gambling revenue spikes at social security paydays. The estimation …

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Skewness preferences : evidence from online poker

Dertwinkel-Kalt, Markus; Kasinger, Johannes; Schneider, … - 2024

We test for skewness preferences in a large set of observational panel data on online poker games (n=4,450,585). Each observation refers to a choice between a safe option and a binary risk of winning or losing the game. Our setting offers a real-world choice situation with substantial incentives...

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Conflicts with multiple battlefields

Kovenock, Daniel J.; Roberson, Brian - 2010

This paper examines conflicts in which performance is measured by the players' success or failure in multiple component conflicts, commonly termed "battlefields". In multi-battlefield conflicts, behavioral linkages across battlefields depend both on the technologies of conflict within each...

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