Feldman, Naomi E.; Katuscak, Peter; Kawano, Laura - 2015
We develop an empirical test for whether households understand or misperceive their tax liability changes. Our … identifying variation comes from the loss of the Child Tax Credit when a child turns 17. Using this age discontinuity, we find … that despite this tax liability increase being lump-sum and predictable, households reduce their reported labor income when …