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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Gorodnichenko et al: Results<br />

Taxable income elasticity dTI<br />

dt<br />

is not<br />

dLI<br />

dt<br />

is large, whereas labor income elasticity<br />

→ Feldstein’s formula overestimates the effi ciency costs of taxation<br />

relative to more general measure for “plausible” g ′ (e)<br />

Question: could g ′ (e) be estimated from consumption data itself?<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 3: Effi ciency 72 / 105

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