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taxation. Building on the conceptual framework of Chetty (2009), we show that this assertion does no longer hold for tax … sufficient to calculate the welfare cost of taxation. …
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I study a two-period model of nonlinear, information constrained income taxation. It is shown that time …-consistent taxation of annual income welfare-dominates time-consistent taxation of lifetime income if preferences are such that stationary …-consistent taxation of annual income can also welfare-dominate taxation of lifetime income under commitment. These findings may help in …
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We analyze individuals with heterogeneous time-inconsistent preferences that consume sin goods and make a savings decision. A government may tax the sin good and provide mandatory health insurance. Due to time-inconsistency, the individual sin good and savings choices in ict internalities. Due...
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The paper studies the design of couples income taxation when consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple …
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This paper explores whether tax planning by households is consistent with a minimization of the family tax burden or whether and to what extent altruism and concerns about the tax loss of individual household members matter. To this end, we take advantage of a specific feature of the German tax...
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Germany introduced a new mandatory insurance for long-term care in 1995. It replaced a system based on means-tested transfers. The new scheme made it easier for households to draw benefits and to organize informal care. We exploit this reform as a natural experiment and examine its effect on the...
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investigate the eff ect of individual and joint taxation on partners' labor supply within an experimental setting. 116 …
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One central lesson of the sovereign debt crisis is that the Eurozone (and the EU) needs institutional reform. Many observers argue that the monetary union should be complemented by a fiscal union . In this paper we provide the first quantitative analysis of important economic effects of an EU...
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We specify and estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply, retirement and savings decisions of single-adult and couple households. Drawing on our model, we study the interplay between family labor supply and public insurance mechanisms. By including family labor supply, we...
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