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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Goolsbee: Intertemporal Shifting<br />

Goolsbee (2000) hypothesizes that top earners’ability to retime<br />

income drives much of observed responses<br />

Analogous to identification of Frisch elasticity instead of compensated<br />

elasticitiy<br />

Regression specification:<br />

TLI = α + β 1<br />

log(1 − tax t ) + β 2<br />

log(1 − tax t+1 )<br />

Long run effect is β 1<br />

+ β 2<br />

Uses ExecuComp data to study effects of the 1993 Clinton tax<br />

increase on executive pay<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> ()<strong>Part</strong> 5: Income Taxation and Labor Supply 164 / 217

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