Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation

Name: Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation
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ISBN: 9780226240978

ISBN-10: 0226240975

ISBN-13: 9780226240978

Edition: 1996

Authors: Martin Feldstein, James M. Poterba

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Tax policy debates—and reforms—depend heavily on estimates of how alternative tax rules would affect behavior. Yet there is considerable controversy about the key empirical links among tax rates, household decisions, and revenue collections. The nine papers in this volume exploit the substantial variation in U.S. tax policy during the last two decades to investigate how taxes affect a range of household behavior, including labor-force participation, saving behavior, choice of health insurance plan, choice of child care arrangements, portfolio choice, and tax evasion. They also present new analytical results on the effects of different types of tax policy. All of this research relies on…

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List price: $87.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/1/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Yvonne Weatherhead is headteacher of a primary school in the North West of England and has also published the popular Lucky Duck book, "Enriching Circle Time" (2004).

James M. Poterba is Mitsui Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT. He has been Director of the NBER Public Economics Research Program since 1991 and has edited volumes 6-20 of Tax Policy and the Economy.



Acknowledgments


Introduction Martin Feldstein




Labor Supply and the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981



Comment




The Taxation of Two-Earner Families Martin Feldstein



Comment




Labor Supply and Welfare Effects of a Shift from Income to Consumption Taxation



Metcalf Comment




The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses



Comment




Tax Subsidies to Employer-Provided Health Insurance Jonathan Gruber



Comment




High-Income Families and the Tax Changes of the 1980s: The Anatomy of Behavioral Response



Comment




Tax Shelters and Passive Losses after the Tax Reform Act of 1986



Comment




The Relationship between State and Federal Tax Audits James Alm



Comment



Contributors


Author Index


Subject Index