Tax Cuts For Whom? Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth and Employment

Zidar, Owen

Tax Cuts For Whom? Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth and Employment

No 21035, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper investigates how tax changes for different income groups affect aggregate economic activity. I construct a measure of who received (or paid for) tax changes in the postwar period using tax return data from NBER's TAXSIM. I aggregate each tax change by income group and state. Variation in the income distribution across U.S. states and federal tax changes generate variation in regional tax shocks that I exploit to test for heterogeneous effects. I find that the positive relationship between tax cuts and employment growth is largely driven by tax cuts for lower-income groups, and that the effect of tax cuts for the top 10% on employment growth is small.

JEL-codes: E32 E62 H2 H20 H31 N12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03
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Published as Owen Zidar, 2019. "Tax Cuts for Whom? Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth and Employment," Journal of Political Economy, vol 127(3), pages 1437-1472.

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