Grant, Charles, Koulovatianos, Christos, Michaelides, Alexander and Padula, Mario (2008) Evidence on the insurance effect of marginal income taxes. . Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain), London, UK.
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Marginal income taxes may have an insurance effect by decreasing the effective fluctuations of after-tax individual income. By compressing the idiosyncratic component of personal income fluctuations, higher marginal taxes should be negatively correlated with the dispersion of consumption across households, a necessary implication of an insurance effect of taxation. Our study empirically examines this negative correlation, exploiting the ample variation of state taxes across US states. We show that taxes are negatively correlated with the consumption dispersion of the within-state distribution of non-durable consumption and that this correlation is robust.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.cepr.org |
| Additional Information: | © 2008 Charles Grant, Christos Koulovatianos, Alexander Michaelides and Mario Padula |
| Divisions: | Financial Markets Group Economics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance |
| JEL classification: | H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H20 - General H - Public Economics > H3 - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents > H31 - Household E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment > E21 - Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Aggregate Physical and Financial Consumer Wealth |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jun 2008 15:43 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 20:10 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/5358 |
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