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Imbens et al. 2001: Income Effects<br />

Estimate income effects using lottery winnings<br />

Survey responses matched with administrative data on earnings from<br />

Social Security Administration<br />

Divide sample into three subgroups:<br />

1 Losers [N = 259]: “season ticket holders” who won $100-$5K<br />

2 Winners [N = 237]: anyone who won prizes of $22K to $9.7 mil<br />

3 Big Winners [N = 43]: winners of prizes >$2 mil total ($100K/yr)<br />

Estimate marginal propensity to earn out of unearned income of<br />

d[wl]/dy = −0.1<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> ()<strong>Part</strong> 5: Income Taxation and Labor Supply 171 / 217

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