Syllabus/achievement requirements

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@Berg, K. and 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

@Blundell, R. and Costa-Dias, M. (2009): "Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics," Journal of Human Resources, 44(3), 565-640.

@Blundell, R. and 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.

@Bitler, M., Gelback, J. B. and Hoynes, H. W. (2006): "What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments," American Economic Review, 96(4), 988-1012.

@B?, E. E., Slemrod, J. and Thoresen, T. O. (2015): "Taxes on the internet: Deterrence effects of public disclosure," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 7.1: 36-62.

@B?, Erlend E., Elin Halvorsen and Thoresen, T. O. (2016): "Heterogeneity of the Carnegie Effect," Discussion Papers no. 853, Statistics Norway. URL: https://www.ssb.no/en/forskning/discussion-papers/_attachment/286151?_ts=158b0cb18d0

@Cabral, M. and Hoxby, C. (2012): "The hated property tax: salience, tax rates, and tax revolts," National Bureau of Economic Research WP No. 18514. Revise & Resubmit, Journal of Political Economy. URL: http://www.nber.org/papers/w18514.pdf

@Campbell, D. T. (1969): "Reforms as experiments," American psychologist 24(4) 409.

@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.

@Currie, J. and Gahvari, F. (2008): "Transfers in Cash and In Kind: Theory Meets the Data," Journal of Economic Literature, 46(2), 333-83.

@Dagsvik, J. D. and Str?m, S. (2006): "Sectoral Labor Supply, Choice Restrictions and Functional Form," Journal of Applied Econometrics, 21, 803-826.

@Dahl, G. B., Kost?l, A. R., and Mogstad, M. (2014): "Family Welfare Cultures," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 129 (4): 1711-1752.

@Dahl, G. B., L?ken, K. V., and Mogstad, M. (2014): "Peer effects in program participation," American Economic Review, 104 (7): 2049-2074.

@Feldman, N. E., and Slemrod, J. (2007): "Estimating tax noncompliance with evidence from unaudited tax returns," Economic Journal 117(518): 327-352.

@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 

@Gruber, J. (1994): "The Incidence of Mandated Maternity Benefits," The American Economic Review, 84(3): 622–641.

@Halvorsen, E. and 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

@Heim, B. T. (2010): "The Responsiveness of Self-Employment Income to Tax Rate Changes," Labour Economics, 17(6): 940–950.

@Kleven, H. J. (2014): "How can Scandinavians Tax So Much?," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 28(4): 77–98.

@Kleven, H. J. and Schultz, E. (2014): "Estimating Taxable Income Responses using Danish Tax Reforms," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 6(4), 271-301.

@Kost?l, A. R., and Mogstad, M. (2014): "How financial incentives induce disability insurance recipients to return to work," American Economic Review, 104(2): 624-655.

@Rothstein, J. (2010): "Is the EITC as Good as an NIT? Conditional Cash Transfers and Tax Incidence," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2(1): 177-208.

@Saez, E. (2010): "Do Taxpayers Bunch at Kink Points?," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2(3):180-212.

@Saez, E., Slemrod, J. and 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.

@Slemrod, J., and 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.

Recommended readings

@Slides for Lectures 12-14 in ECON4150 (Spring 2017). URL: http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/oekonomi/ECON4150/v17/index.html

@Aaberge, R., Bhuller, M., Lang?rgen, A., and Mogstad, M. (2010): "The Distributional Impact of Public Services when Needs Differ," Journal of Public Economics, 94(9-10), 549-562.

@Chetty, R. (2009): "Sufficient Statistics for Welfare Analysis: A Bridge Between Structural and Reduced-Form Methods," Annual Review of Economics, 1, 451–87.

@Hoynes, H. W. and Schanzenbach, D. W. (2009): "Consumption Responses to In-Kind Transfers: Evidence from the Introduction of the Food Stamp Program," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4), 109-139.

@Kleven, H. (2016): "Bunching," Annual Review of Economics, 8, 435-64.

@Markussen, S. and R?ed, K. (2015): "Social Insurance Networks," Journal of Human Resources, 50 (4), 1081-1113.

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