The Policy Elasticity

By Nathaniel Hendren. Tax Policy and the Economy, 2016

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* (2019, unknown): “Because of this, Hendren (2016) defines this quantity as the MVPF to contrast it with the MEB and MCPF. Combining equations (1) and (2), the impact on social welfare per dollar of government expen- diture on policy j is dWt dpj dR dpj = ⌘̄jMV PFj Given the MVPF for any two policy changes, one can…”
A simpler theory of optimal capital taxation (2017, unknown): “Hence, eK is a policy elasticity (Hendren, 2016) that mixes substitution and income effects.”
Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Markets Approach with Heterogeneous Firms (2016, unknown): “In terms of worker location decisions, Bakija and Slemrod (2004) find modest but negative effects while Kleven et al. (2013) and Kleven et al. (2014) find somewhat larger effects among high income earners in Denmark and European soccer players, respectively. Our paper embeds the location decisions o”
Best Practices for Using Hedonic Property Value Models to Measure Willingness to Pay for Environmental Quality (2020, background): “Recently, public economists have argued that the concept of a marginal value of public funds (MVPF) presented in Hendren (2015) offers an opportunity for economists “. . . to harness the fruits of the ‘credibility revolution’ for the public finance goal of welfare analysis” (Finkelstein 2018, p. 1).”
Difference-in-Differences with a Continuous Treatment (2021, unknown): “In many economic models, price and income elasticities determine optimal policies like tax rates, tax bases, subsidies, and regulations (Hendren, 2016), but these are continuous concepts that can be estimated accurately only with continuous variation.”