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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Farber: Alternative Test<br />

Farber’s alternative test for target earnings: hazard model<br />

Quit = f (cum_hours, cum_inc)<br />

Result: main determinant of quitting is hours worked, NOT<br />

cumulative income<br />

Rejects target earning, but does not yield ITLS estimate<br />

Other studies find positive ITLS<br />

Bicycle messengers (Fehr and Goette 2007 randomized experiment)<br />

Stadium vendors (Oettinger 1999: vendors show up more to high<br />

attendance games)<br />

But structural parameters estimated in these studies are not of direct<br />

interest to macro models or public finance because they are too high<br />

frequency<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> ()<strong>Part</strong> 5: Income Taxation and Labor Supply 148 / 217

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