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Isolating the Effect of Major Depression on Obesity : Role of Selection Bias

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2011

obesity. The economic burden of depression, about $100 billion annually, is under-estimated if depression has a positive … causal impact on obesity. If depression plays a causal role in increasing the prevalence of obesity, then policy … from major depression to higher BMI and obesity. While contemporaneous effects are considered, the study primarily focuses …

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Does Medicaid Coverage for Pregnant Women Affect Prenatal Health Behaviors?

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2015

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the Medicaid expansions of the 1980s and 1990s for pregnant women. Accordingly, we provide the first national study of the effects of Medicaid on health behaviors for pregnant women....

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Nutrient Intake : A Cross-National Analysis of Trends and Economic Correlates

Dave, Dhaval M. - 2016

intake and obesity. The cross-national trends, across countries spanning the spectrum of economic development and geographic …

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Local Revenue Hills : A General Equilibrium Specification with Evidence from Four U.S. Cities

Haughwout, Andrew - 2000

We provide estimates of the impact and long-run elasticities of tax base with respect to tax rates for four large U.S. cities: Houston (property taxation), Minneapolis (property taxation), New York City (property, general sales, and income taxation), and Philadelphia (property, gross receipts,...

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Tax Competition With Parasitic Tax Havens

Slemrod, Joel - 2006

We develop a tax competition framework in which some jurisdictions, called tax havens, are parasitic on the revenues of other countries. The havens use real resources to help companies camouflage their home-country tax avoidance, and countries use resources in an attempt to limit the transfer of...

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Local Revenue Hills : Evidence from Four U.S. Cities

Haughwout, Andrew F. - 2003

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Do We Now Collect Any Revenue From Taxing Capital Income?

Gordon, Roger H. - 2003

The U.S. income tax has long been recognized as a hybrid of an income and consumption tax, with elements that do not fit naturally into either pure system. The precise nature of this hybrid has important policy implications for, among other things, understanding the impact of moving closer to a...

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Do the Laws of Tax Incidence Hold? Point of Collection and the Pass-through of State Diesel Taxes

Kopczuk, Wojciech - 2013

The canonical theory of taxation holds that the incidence of a tax is independent of the side of the market which is responsible for remitting the tax to the government. However, this prediction does not survive in certain circumstances, for example when the ability to evade taxes differs across...

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The Effect of Tax Rates and Tax Bases on Corporate Tax Revenues : Estimates with New Measures of the Corporate Tax Base

Kawano, Laura - 2012

Several recent analyses have suggested that the revenue-maximizing corporate tax rate resides in the low-30's. We challenge this result by re-examining this relationship using a new compilation of changes in corporate tax base definitions for OECD countries between 1980 and 2004. By considering...

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Tax Knowledge and Tax Manipulation : A Unifying Model

Craig, Ashley C.; Slemrod, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We provide a unified analysis of taxation and taxpayer education when individuals have an incomplete understanding of a complex tax system. The analysis is independent of whether income is earned legitimately, or by avoiding or evading taxes. In this sense, learning about tax minimization...

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