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reference level of marriage expenditure for such families. Using the 2013 China Household Finance Survey data, we find that a 0 …
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Using university admission cutoffs that generate exogenous variation in college-major choices, we provide causal evidence that enrollment in a business or economics program leads individuals to invest significantly more in the stock market, earn higher portfolio returns, and ultimately...
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We theoretically express the Laffer tax rate on capital income as a function of the elasticities of capital income (the "direct" elasticity) and of labor income (the "cross" elasticity) with respect to the net-of-tax rate on capital income. We estimate these elasticities using salient capital...
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The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
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the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We … pooling of men's earnings and the household's non-labour income in the female's budget constraint. These differences in … outcomes have consequences for the evaluation of a policy change in the tax system. -- Labour supply ; household behaviour …
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The public finance literature demonstrates the equivalence between consumption and laborincome (wage) taxes. We …
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. Information structure and labor supply decisions follow the Mirrleesian tradition. However, while the household's total …
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, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the distributions of average and marginal taxes, properties of … the joint distributions of taxes paid and income, and discuss how taxes are affected by marital status and the number of … children. The data reveals a large dispersion in tax rates and taxes paid. Ranking households according to the average tax …
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compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …
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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first … share of the next 4 percent. The third part of the paper looks at the relationship between taxes and top income shares … ; taxation ; Australia ; Canada ; New Zealand ; United Kingdom ; United States …
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