Introduction -- The tax gap -- Recent patterns in IRS enforcement -- Economic Theory and the literature -- The Dubin Graetz Wilde model -- The data -- IRS criminal enforcement activities and taxpayer noncompliance -- IRS criminal investigation: measuring the marginal monetary effect of criminal...

Analyzes empirically the effect of audit rates and certain other factors on the filing of federal individual income tax returns and the self-reporting of taxes due. Estimates that self-reported taxes in 1986 would have been greater by approximately fifteen billion dollars had the federal audit...

Provides empirical evidence on the relationship between compliance with the federal income tax and auditing by the IRS. Combines a cross-section data set related to 1969 individual returns assembled by the IRS with data taken from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Missing data are common in observational studies due to self-selection of subjects. Missing data can bias estimates of linear regression and related models. The nature of selection bias and econometric methods for correcting it are described. The econometric approach relies upon a specification...

This paper estimates a nested logit model for space heat and water heat choice using data from the 1980 Pacific Northwest Energy Survey (PNW). The estimated structure involves six alternative space heat systems and three alternative water heat fuel types. Operating and capital costs are...

This article tests empirically whether measurable activities of the IRS Criminal Investigation Division (CI) affect taxpayer compliance. The analysis is based on a state-level cross-section for the time period 1988 through 2001. First, it finds that CI activities have a measurable and...