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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Feldstein: Econometric Criticisms<br />

Sample size: results driven by very few observations (Slemrod 1996)<br />

Auten-Carroll (1999) replicate results on larger Treasury dataset<br />

Find a smaller elasticity: 0.65<br />

Different trends across income groups (Goolsbee 1998)<br />

Triple difference that nets out differential prior trends yields elasticity<br />

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