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Lecture 1 Introduction & Selection Problem
@ Campbell, D. T. (1969: ”Reforms as Experiments.” American Psychologist, 24(4), 409-429.
@ Blundell, R. & Costa-Dias, M. (2009): ”Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics.” Journal of Human Resources, 44(3), 565-640.
Additional Recommended Reading:
@ Slides for Lectures 12-14 in ECON4150 (Spring 2017). URL: http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/oekonomi/ECON4150/v17/index.html
@ R. Chetty: “Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods”, Annual Review of Economics, 1, 451–87, 2009.
Lecture 2 Labor supply and Elasticity of Taxable Income (ETI)
@ Saez, E., Slemrod, J. Giertz, S. H. (2012): ”The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review”, Journal of Economic Literature, 50(1), 3-50.
@ Thoresen, T. O. and T. E. Vattø (2015). Validation of the Discrete Choice Labor Supply Model by Methods of the New Tax Responsiveness Literature, Labour Economics, 37, 38–53.
Additional Recommended Reading:
@ Kleven, H. J. (2014): “How can Scandinavians Tax So Much?,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(4), 77-98.
Lecture 3 Earnings Taxation & Bunching
@ Saez, E. (2010): ”Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2(3):180-212.
@ Kleven, H. (2016): "Bunching," Annual Review of Economics, 8, 435-64.
Lecture 4 Cash Transfers and Welfare programs
@ Eissa, N. and Hoynes, H. (2005) “Taxes and the labor market participation of married couples: the earned income tax credit,” Journal of Public Economics, vol. 88, issue 9-10, 1931-1958.
@ Bitler, M., Gelback, J. B. and Hoynes, H. W (2006): ”What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments,” American Economic Review, 96(4), 988-1012.
Lecture 5 In-kind transfers
@ Currie, J. & Gahvari, F. (2008) ”Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data”. Journal of Economic Literature, 46(2), 333-83.
@ Hoynes, H.W., and Schanzenbach, D.W.. 2009. "Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1 (4): 109-39.
Lecture 6 Peer Effects & Program Participation
@ Dahl, G. B., Løken, K. V., & Mogstad, M. (2014): “Peer Effects in Program Participation,” American Economic Review, 104 (7), 2049-2074.
Lecture 7 Tax Incidence
Gaarder, I. (2019): “Incidence and Distributional Effects of Value Added Taxes,” The Economic Journal, Volume 129, Issue 618, 853 - 876.
Lecture 8 Inattentiveness, Salience & Public Policy
@ Chetty, R., Looney, A. and Kroft, K. (2009): ”Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence”, American Economic Review, 99(4), 1145-1177.
@ Chetty, R. (2015): ”Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective”, American Economic Review, 105(5), 1-33.
Lecture 9 Tax Evasion
@ Engstrøm, P. and Hagen, J. (2017). ‘Income underreporting among the self-employed: a permanent income approach’, European Economic Review, vol. 92, pp. 92–109.
@ Slemrod, J. & Weber, C. (2012): ”Evidence of the Invisible: Toward a Credibility Revolution in the Empirical Analysis of Tax Evasion and the Informal Economy,” International Tax and Public Finance, 19(1), 25-53.
Lecture 10 Commodity taxation
@ Allcott, H., Lockwood, B. & Taubinsky, D. (2019): “Regressive Sin Taxes, With an Application to the Optimal Soda Tax,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 134, Issue 3, August 2019, Pages 1557–1626,
Lecture 11 Wealth Taxation
@ Halvorsen, E. & Thoresen, T. O. (2019): “Distributional Effects of the Wealth Tax under a Lifetime-Dynastic Income Concept”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, forthcoming.
Available as PDF here:
[PDF]Halvorsen & Thoresen - Distributional Effects of the Wealth Tax
Lecture 12 Business Taxation
@ Fuest, C., Peichl, A. & Siegloch, S.: "Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany", American Economic Review 108 (2), 2018, 393–418.
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