Teaching the Tax Code: Earnings Responses to an Experiment with EITC Recipients

By Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Saez. 2009

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Attention Variation and Welfare: Theory and Evidence from a Tax Salience Experiment (2016, unknown): “For work documenting tax misperceptions see, e.g. Chetty et al. (2013), Chetty and Saez (2013), Bhargava and Manoli (2015) on misunderstanding of the earned income tax credit; Abeler and Jäger (2015) for lab experimental evidence about the impacts of complexity; de Bartolome (1995), Liebman and…”
Bunching and Non-Bunching at Kink Points of the Swedish Tax Schedule (2012, unknown): “In a similar vein, Chetty and Saez (2009) compare bunching at the first EITC kink in the U.S. before and after informing randomly selected taxpayers about the tax system.”
Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective (2015, unknown): “Chetty and Saez (2013) report results of an experiment with 43,000 EITC clients of H&R Block, in which half the tax filers were randomly selected to receive information from their tax preparer about the marginal incentive structure of the EITC.”
Adjustment Costs, Firm Responses, and Micro vs. Macro Labor Supply Elasticities: Evidence from Danish Tax Records (2011, methodology): “In Chetty et al. (2009) we use numerical simulations to verify that the three predictions hold in the general case.”
How to Improve Tax Compliance? Evidence from Population-Wide Experiments in Belgium (2019, unknown): “While we do not address the complexity of the tax schedule itself (e.g., Chetty and Saez 2013; Abeler and Jäger 2015; Aghion et al. 2017), our paper does shed new light on how simplifying communication can help to overcome information frictions and/or hassle costs associated with the process of…”
Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy (2009, background): “What evidence is available suggests that EITCeligible individuals possess only imperfect knowledge of how the credit operates (Smeeding, Ross Phillips, and O'Connor, 2000; Ross Phillips, 2001; Chetty and Saez, 2009).”
The Role of Application Assistance and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment* (2012, result): “Research by Adelman (2006) supports this possibility in concluding that delayed entry into college reduces students’ educational attainment. While we only examine enrollment patterns up for three years following the FAFSA intervention, our results are consistent with those of Adelman (2006) suggesti”