Spencer Bastani

IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation

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751 20 Uppsala

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Uppsala University - Department of Economics

Box 513

SE-75120 Uppsala

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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

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Uppsala University - Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies

Box 513

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Uppsala Center for Labor Studies and Department of Economics

  • IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation

  • Uppsala University - Department of Economics

  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

  • Uppsala University - Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies

  • Uppsala Center for Labor Studies and Department of Economics

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1.

AI, Automation and Taxation

CESifo Working Paper No. 11084
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Apr 2024
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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AI, automation, inequality, labor share, optimal taxation, tax progressivity

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How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

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How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11475
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 02 May 2018 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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optimal taxation, capital taxation, wealth tax, inheritance tax, corporate tax, income inequality, wealth inequality, political economy, preferences for redistribution

How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 7004
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 29 Jun 2018
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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optimal taxation, capital taxation, wealth tax, inheritance tax, corporate tax, income equality-ty, wealth inequality, political economy, preferences for redistribution

How Should Capital Be Taxed? Theory and Evidence from Sweden

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12880
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 23 Apr 2018
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Capital taxation, corporate tax, Income inequality, Inheritance tax, optimal taxation, political economy, Preferences for Redistribution, Wealth Inequality, Wealth tax

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Optimal Delayed Taxation in the Presence of Financial Frictions

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2024
Marius Alexander Kalleberg Ring and Spencer Bastani
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation
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H21, G51, D15 delayed taxation, credit constraints, income taxation

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Simple Equilibria in General Contests

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Simple Equilibria in General Contests

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 19 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2022
Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Gürtler
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics and University of Cologne
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contest theory, symmetric equilibrium, heterogeneity, risk, decision theory

A General Framework for Studying Contests

CESifo Working Paper No. 7993
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Dec 2019
Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Gürtler
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics and University of Cologne
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contest theory, symmetric equilibrium, heterogeneity, risk, decision theory

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Anti-Discrimination Legislation and the Efficiency-Enhancing Role of Mandatory Parental Leave

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5917
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 22 Jun 2016
Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics and Bocconi University
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anti-discrimination, adverse selection, parental leave, efficiency

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The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation

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The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3225
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Oct 2010
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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labor income taxation, capital income taxation, age-dependent taxes, OLG model

The Welfare Gains of Age Related Optimal Income Taxation

CONPUBBLICA Working Paper Series No. 151
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 Mar 2012
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and Bocconi University
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labor income taxation, capital income taxation, age-dependent taxes, OLG model

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The Ability Gradient in Bunching

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The Ability Gradient in Bunching

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13141
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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bunching, ability, skills, complexity, optimal taxation

The Ability Gradient in Bunching

CESifo Working Paper No. 8233
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 Apr 2020
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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bunching, ability, skills, complexity, optimal taxation

The Ability Gradient in Bunching

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14599
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 May 2020
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Paris School of Economics (PSE)
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ability, bunching, Complexity, optimal taxation, skills

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Bunching and Non-Bunching at Kink Points of the Swedish Tax Schedule

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3865
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Jul 2012
Spencer Bastani and Hakan Selin
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Uppsala University - Department of Economics
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bunching, taxable income, bounds, optimization frictions

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The Marginal Cost of Public Funds: A Brief Guide

CESifo Working Paper No. 10322
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 21 Mar 2023
Spencer Bastani
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation
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benefit-cost analysis, public investment, excess burden, distortions, public goods, taxes

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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

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Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

CESifo Working Paper No. 10339
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Apr 2023
Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Gürtler
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics and University of Cologne
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overconfidence, promotion, competition, gender gap, tournament, theory

Overconfidence and Gender Gaps in Career Outcomes: Insights from a Promotion Signaling Model

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 22 Nov 2024
Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Gürtler
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics and University of Cologne
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overconfidence, promotion, competition, gender gap, tournament

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Salience of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

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Salience of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

CESifo Working Paper No. 7482
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 21 Feb 2019
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Paris School of Economics (PSE)
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capital taxation, tax attitudes, equality of opportunity, randomized experiment

Salience of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13484
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 28 Jan 2019
Spencer Bastani and Daniel Waldenström
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
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Capital taxation, Equality of Opportunity, randomized experiment, tax attitudes

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Public Provision of Private Goods, Tagging and Optimal Income Taxation with Heterogeneity in Needs

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Public Provision of Private Goods, Tagging and Optimal Income Taxation with Heterogeneity in Needs

ECONPUBBLICA Working Paper No. 153
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Mar 2012
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and Bocconi University
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optimal income taxation, in-kind transfers, tagging

Public Provision of Private Goods, Tagging and Optimal Income Taxation with Heterogeneity in Needs

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 3275
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Dec 2010
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and Bocconi University
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optimal income taxation, in-kind transfers, tagging

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How Should Consumption Be Taxed?

CESifo Working Paper No. 10038
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Oct 2022
Spencer Bastani and Sebastian Köhne
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU)
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taxation, consumption, commodity, labor, capital, wealth

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Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6533
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 20 Jul 2017
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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optimal income taxation, child care subsidies, tax deductibility, tax credit, public provision of private goods

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Taxation of housing in a Mirrleesian context when urban land is scarce

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Taxation of housing in a Mirrleesian context when urban land is scarce

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 20 Dec 2023
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist, Luca Micheletto and Khayyam Tayibov
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics, University of Milan and Linnaeus University
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optimal income taxation, housing, land, structures, maintenance

Taxation of Housing in a Mirrleesian Context When Urban Land is Scarce

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 Dec 2023
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist, Luca Micheletto and Khayyam Tayibov
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics, University of Milan and Linnaeus University
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optimal income taxation, housing, land, structures, maintenance

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4938
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Sep 2014
Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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adverse selection, labor market, optimal taxation, pooling, redistribution

Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9154
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 04 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics and Bocconi University
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optimal taxation, labor market, adverse selection, pooling, redistribution

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Household Specialization and Competition for Promotion

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Household Specialization and Competition for Promotion

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2024
Spencer Bastani, Lisa Dickmanns, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Gürtler
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, University of Cologne, Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics and University of Cologne
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contest theory, gender equality, family, household, competition

Competition for Promotion Can Induce Household Specialization between Equally Competitive Spouses

CESifo Working Paper No. 9660
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 11 Apr 2022
Spencer Bastani, Lisa Dickmanns, Thomas Giebe and Oliver Gürtler
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, University of Cologne, Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics and University of Cologne
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contest theory, gender equality, family, household, competition

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Political Preferences for Redistribution in Sweden

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6205
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Jan 2017
Spencer Bastani and Jacob Lundberg
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Uppsala University
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redistribution, social welfare weights, optimal taxation, inverse optimal taxation, social preferences

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Ethnicity and Tax Filing Behavior

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Ethnicity and Tax Filing Behavior

Journal of Urban Economics, Vol 116, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2021
Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Chizheng Miao
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics and Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics
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deductions, tax filing, bunching, immigrants, natives, integration

Ethnicity and Tax Filing Behavior

CESifo Working Paper No. 7576
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Apr 2019
Spencer Bastani, Thomas Giebe and Chizheng Miao
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics and Linnaeus University - Department of Economics and Statistics
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deductions, tax filing, bunching, immigrants, natives, integration

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How Should Commodities Be Taxed? A Counterargument to the Recommendation in the Mirrlees Review

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4240
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 May 2013
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Jukka Pirttila
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and United Nations - World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU/WIDER)
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income taxation, commodity taxation, public provision, separability

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Estimating Participation Responses Using Transfer Program Reform

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5781
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 24 Mar 2016
Spencer Bastani, Ylva Moberg and Håkan Selin
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University and Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies
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labor supply, social assistance, housing allowance, in-work tax credits, take up of transfer programs

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Nonlinear Taxation of Income and Education in the Presence of Income-Misreporting

CESifo Working Paper No. 9987
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Oct 2022
Spencer Bastani, Firouz Gahvari and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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optimal taxation, education, human capital, income-misreporting, redistribution

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Optimal Commodity Taxation with Varying Quality of Goods

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5635
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 19 Jan 2016
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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nonlinear income taxation, commodity taxation, redistribution, varying quality

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Social Exclusion and Optimal Redistribution

CESifo Working Paper No. 9448
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 08 Dec 2021
Thomas Aronsson, Spencer Bastani and Khayyam Tayibov
Umeå University - Department of Economics, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation and Linnaeus University
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long-term unemployment, education, optimal income taxation, public sector employment

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Taxes and the Division of Social Status

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2024
Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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optimal taxation, signaling, status, commodity taxation

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Public Pensions in a Multi-Period Mirrleesian Income Tax Model

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6206
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 12 Jan 2017
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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public pensions, dynamic optimal income taxation, capital income taxation, tagging

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Heterogeneity in Needs and Negative Marginal Tax Rates

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6708
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Dec 2017
Spencer Bastani, Soren Blomquist and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Uppsala University - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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nonlinear income taxation, negative marginal tax rates, heterogeneity in needs, redistribution

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Optimal Redistribution in the Presence of Signaling

CESifo Working Paper No. 9210
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Aug 2021
Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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Optimal (P)Redistribution in the Presence of Signaling: A First Pass

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Mar 2022
Spencer Bastani, Tomer Blumkin and Luca Micheletto
IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Department of Economics and University of Milan
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nonlinear taxation, education, asymmetric information, human capital