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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity
Lehmann, Etienne; Lucifora, Claudio; Moriconi, Simone; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule … on a panel of 21 OECD countries over 1998-2008. Controlling for the burden of taxation at the average wage, our estimates … are confirmed when we account for the potential endogeneity of both average taxation and progressivity. Overall, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790514
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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764612
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Trends and Gradients in Top Tax Elasticities: Cross-Country Evidence, 1900 2014
Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
We compile data spanning the period 1900 2014 and up to 30 countries to study long-run patterns in the tax elasticity of top incomes. Our results show that top tax elasticities vary tremendously over time; they were medium-to-low before 1950, virtually zero during the postwar era up to 1980 and...
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Taxation, aggregates and the household
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2008
We evaluate reforms to the U.S. tax system in a dynamic setup with heterogeneous married and single households, and with an operative extensive margin in labor supply. We restrict our model with observations on gender and skill premia, labor force participation of married females across skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268821
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Income taxation of US households: Basic facts
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, 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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278342
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
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Taxing women: A macroeconomic analysis
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2011
current system of taxation, setting a proportional tax rate on married females equal to 4% (8%) increases output and married …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280681
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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US: New results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287662