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result in income or health gains …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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and agriculture), and an increase in profit. But this increase in profit was offset by a reduction in income from casual … labor, so overall there was no gain in measured income or consumption. We find suggestive evidence that these results are …
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This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Arnold Harberger's celebrated model of the corporation income tax … understanding the incidence and excess burden of the corporate income tax remains in question. One difficulty confronting all …
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The 1986 Tax Reform Act, while having little effect on the overall effective tax rate on U.S. capital income, did … redistribution of income associated with the Tax Reform. We find that the 1986 Tax Reform law reduces excess burden by .85 percent of …
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An important deficiency in Harberger's (1962) model of corporate income taxation is its inability to consider both … corporation income tax. The model has two key characteristics. First, corporate and noncorporate firms produce (with identical … much larger excess burden from corporate income taxation. The incidence of the corporate tax can also differ dramatically …
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The Tax Reform Act of 1986 considerably altered the differentials between taxes on corporate and noncorporate capital. Conventional wisdom, relying on various incarnations of the Harberger model, suggests rather small efficiency effects from these changes in corporate tax wedges. But the...
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This paper investigates the long-run incidence of the corporate income tax in an open-economy model calibrated with two …-run incidence of the corporate income tax is not borne by domestic labor. Nor is much of it borne by landowners. This finding is … incidence of the corporate income tax, which has received little or no attention in the previous literature, might motivate tax …
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