The Unequal Geographic Burden of Federal Taxation

By David Albouy. Journal of Political Economy, 2009

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Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities (2013, methodology): “The analysis above has provided the inputs to market- and income-specific price indexes that represent how households at different income levels value the products and prices available to them in different U.S. cities and neighborhoods, as outlined in Section 5 above.”
Agglomeration and Innovation (2014, unknown): “22 Albouy (2009) describes the uneven impact of federal taxation over cities based upon their prices and sizes, given that taxes are applied to nominal wages and not real wages.”
What Are Cities Worth? Land Rents, Local Productivity, and the Total Value of Amenities (2016, methodology): “To calculate the differentials of interest from ŵ j and p̂ j, I parameterize equations (1), (2), (3), and (4) according to tax rates and cost, income, and expenditure shares given by Albouy (2009) (explained in appendix B).”
Optimal Spatial Policies, Geography, and Sorting* (2018, unknown): “36Desmet and Rossi-Hansberg (2013) find welfare gains of 0.9% from eliminating frictions across U.S. cities, Albouy (2009) finds losses of 0.2% from the tax dispersion created by federal income taxes, and Fajgelbaum et al. (2018) find gains of of 0.6% from harmonizing state taxes.”
Place Based Policies with Unemployment (2013, background): “Condition (4) in conjunction with the housing supply function (1) will pin down a unique steady state city size N .”
Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy (2013, unknown): “where we have made repeated use of the relationship given in (1).”
Every Breath You Take—Every Dollar You’ll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970 (2017, unknown): “Thus, we follow Albouy (2009b,c); Angrist and Lavy (2009); Currie et al. (2015) (and others) and weight by the group-level cell size (i.”
A Spatial Knowledge Economy (2019, background): “Recent examples include Albouy (2009) on federal taxation of nominal income, Autor and Dorn (2012) on the polarization of jobs, Beaudry, Doms, and Lewis (2010) on the introduction of computers as a technological revolution, and Nakamura and Steinsson (2011) on fiscal stimulus in a monetary union.”
Are Big Cities Bad Places to Live? Estimating Quality of Life across Metropolitan Areas (2008, methodology): “6Deductions for local public goods and housing are left out here, but are included in the application and discussed in full in Albouy (2009a), which also explains how federal expenditures are not correlated with federal taxes, and most federal public goods, mainly defense, benefi areas fairly…”
Human capital, higher education institutions, and quality of life (2011, methodology): “15 We could, instead, define the expenditure function and use Shephard’s Lemma to obtain an equivalent result as in Albouy (2008, 2009).”
The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities (2018, background): “In particular, the taxation of income implies that the agglomeration benefits of large cities are taxed which may distort location choices and lead to insufficient agglomeration (Albouy, 2009).”