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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Saez 2004: Long-Run Evidence<br />

Compares top 1% relative to the bottom 99%<br />

Bottom 99% real income increases up to early 1970s and stagnates<br />

since then<br />

Top 1% increases slowly up to the early 1980s and then increases<br />

dramatically up to year 2000.<br />

Corresponds to the decrease in MTRs<br />

Pattern exemplifies general theme of this literature: large responses<br />

for top earners, no response for rest of the population<br />

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