EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Estimating Taxable Income Responses with Elasticity Heterogeneity

Anil Kumar and Che-Yuan Liang

No 1611, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Abstract: We extend a standard taxable income model with its typical functional-form assumptions to account for nonlinear budget sets. We propose a new method to estimate taxable income elasticity that is more policy relevant than the typically estimated elasticity based on linearized budget sets. Using U.S. data from the NBER tax panel for 1979-1990 and differencing methods, we estimate an elasticity of 0.75 for taxable income and 0.20 for broad income. These estimates are higher than those obtained by specifications based on linearization. Our approach offers a new way to address the problem of endogenous observed marginal tax rates.

Keywords: taxable income; nonlinear budget sets; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D11 H24 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2016-11-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-pbe and nep-pub
Note: The original version of the paper circulated as “The Taxable Income Elasticity: A Structural Differencing Approach."
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.dallasfed.org/-/media/documents/research/papers/2016/wp1611.pdf Original (application/pdf)
https://www.dallasfed.org/-/media/documents/research/papers/2016/wp1611r1.pdf Revision 1 (application/pdf)
https://www.dallasfed.org/-/media/documents/research/papers/2016/wp1611r2.pdf Revision 2 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Estimating taxable income responses with elasticity heterogeneity (2020) Downloads
Working Paper: Estimating Taxable Income Responses with Elasticity Heterogeneity (2017) Downloads
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fip:feddwp:1611

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
pubsorder@dal.frb.org

DOI: 10.24149/wp1611r2

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Amy Chapman (amy.chapman@dal.frb.org).

 
Page updated 2025-01-08
Handle: RePEc:fip:feddwp:1611