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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...
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We develop a model of how taxpayers update beliefs over their tax rates when they encounter a non-salient tax liability change. We test the model's hypotheses using the loss of the Child Tax Credit when a child turns 17. Because this tax liability change is lump-sum and predictable, there should...
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IRPEF – the Italian personal income tax – is the leading tax in terms of share of total government revenue in Italy. After a decade of reforms, the tax-benefit structure still exhibits several critical issues that need to be addressed. The paper presents a tax-benefit design proposal for...
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exploit an age discontinuity in the federal tax system: parents whose children are born in December of year t-1 can claim … child-related tax benefits for that year, whereas otherwise-similar parents whose children are born in January of year t …
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rate in general, but by definition only for households with children. Overall the reform has a positive impact on labour …
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rate in general, but by definition only for households with children. Overall the reform has a positive impact on labour …
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the poverty rate for households with children. Overall the reform has a positive impact on labour supply, especially for …
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child tax allowances and social benefits (i.e. income tax allowances for children and social security benefits for each … dependent child, one-off birth payments and paid maternity leave) on the decision to have children. This is the first study of … explaining fertility. Other key factors affecting the decision to have children are the value of women's time and the rate of …
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