Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered?

Claudia Sahm, Matthew Shapiro and Joel Slemrod

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, vol. 4, issue 3, 216-50

Abstract: Recent fiscal policies, including the 2008 stimulus payments and the 2009 Making Work Pay Tax Credit, aimed to increase household spending. This paper quantifies the spending response to these policies and examines differences in spending by whether the stimulus was delivered as a one-time payment or as a flow of payments from reduced withholding. Based on responses from a representative sample of households in the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers, the paper finds that the reduction in withholding in 2009 boosted spending at roughly half the rate (13 percent) as the one-time payments (25 percent) in 2008. (JEL D12, E21, E62)

JEL-codes: D12 E21 E62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
Note: DOI: 10.1257/pol.4.3.216
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Working Paper: Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered? (2011)
Working Paper: Check in the mail or more in the paycheck: does the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus depend on how it is delivered? (2011)
Working Paper: Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered? (2011)
Working Paper: Check in the mail or more in the paycheck: does the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus depend on how it is delivered? (2010)
Working Paper: Check in the Mail or More in the Paycheck: Does the Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimulus Depend on How It Is Delivered? (2010)
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