Important exam information
The syllabus you will be tested in on the written exam is limited to the following papers we have discussed in the lectures:
Lecture 1 Introduction & Selection Problem
@Campbell, D. T. (1969: ”Reforms as Experiments.” American Psychologist, 24(4), 409-429.
Lecture 2 Review of Empirical Strategies
@Blundell, R. & Costa-Dias, M. (2009): ”Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics.” Journal of Human Resources, 44(3), 565-640.
Lecture 3 Labor Supply & Taxation
@Blundell, R. & McCurdy, T. (1999): "Labor Supply: A Review of Alternative Approaches", in O. Ashenfelter & D. Card (ed.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3, Sections 1-5 & 6.1.
@Blundell, R. (2012): ”Tax Policy Reform: the Role of Empirical Evidence,” Journal of European Economic Association, 10(1), 43-77, Sections 1, 3 & 5.
Lecture 4 Elasticity of Taxable Income (ETI)
@Kleven, H. J. (2014): “How can Scandinavians Tax So Much?,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(4), 77-98.
@Saez, E., Slemrod, J. Giertz, S. H. (2012): ”The Elasticity of Taxable Income with Respect to Marginal Tax Rates: A Critical Review”, Journal of Economic Literature, 50(1), 3-50.
Lecture 5 Tax Incidence
@Gaarder, I. (2017): ”Incidence and Distributional Effects of Value Added Taxes” (Revise & Resubmit, Economic Journal).
URL: http://www.sv.uio.no/econ/english/research/news-and-events/events/guest-lectures-seminars/department-seminar/paper/gaarder-incidence-and-distributional-effects-of-value-added-taxes.pdf
Lecture 6 Inattentiveness, Salience & Public Policy
@Chetty, R., Looney, A. and Kroft, K. (2009): ”Salience and Taxation: Theory and Evidence”, American Economic Review, 99(4), 1145-1177.
@Chetty, R. (2015): ”Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective”, American Economic Review, 105(5), 1-33.
Lecture 7 Tax Evasion
@Feldman, N. E., and Slemrod, J. (2007) ”Estimating tax noncompliance with evidence from unaudited tax returns,” Economic Journal, 117(518), 327-352.
@Slemrod, J. & Weber, C. (2012): ”Evidence of the Invisible: Toward a Credibility Revolution in the Empirical Analysis of Tax Evasion and the Informal Economy,” International Tax and Public Finance, 19(1), 25-53.
Lecture 8 Earnings Taxation & Means-Tested Transfers
@Saez, E. (2010): ”Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2(3):180-212.
Lecture 9 Cash & In-kind Transfers
@Currie, J. & Gahvari, F. (2008) ”Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data”. Journal of Economic Literature, 46(2), 333-83.
Lecture 10 Peer Effects & Program Participation
@Dahl, G. B., L?ken, K. V., and Mogstad, M. (2014) "Peer effects in program participation". American Economic Review, 104 (7): 2049-2074.
Lecture 11 Wealth Taxation
@ Halvorsen, E. & Thoresen, T. O. (2017): “Distributional Effects of the Wealth Tax under a Lifetime-Dynastic Income Concept”, CESifo Working Paper No. 6614.
URL: http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page/portal/DocBase_Content/WP/WP-CESifo_Working_Papers/wp-cesifo-2017/wp-cesifo-2017-08/cesifo1_wp6614.pdf
Lecture 12 Business Taxation
@Berg, K. & Thoresen, T. O. (2016): “Problematic Response Margins in the Estimation of the Elasticity of Taxable Income”, Discussion Papers no. 851, Statistics Norway. URL: https://www.ssb.no/en/forskning/discussion-papers/_attachment/285306?_ts=1588b3b30f0