Buhlmann, Florian; Elsner, Benjamin; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
their income by either reducing their labor supply or manipulating their taxable income. In this paper, we quantify the … extent of such behavioral responses for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the US. We exploit the fact that US states can … set top-up rates, which means that at a given point in time, workers with the same income receive different tax refunds in …