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Bunching

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen (2016) Bunching. Annual Review of Economics, 8. pp. 435-464. ISSN 1941-1383

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Identification Number: 10.1146/annurev-economics-080315-015234

Abstract

Recent years have seen a surge of applied work using bunching approaches, a development that is closely linked to the increased availability of administrative data. These approaches exploit the incentives for bunching created by discontinuities in the slope of choice sets (kinks) or in the level of choice sets (notches) to study the behavior of individuals and firms. Although the bunching approach was originally developed in the context of taxation, it is beginning to find applications in many other areas, such as social security, social insurance, welfare programs, education, regulation, private sector prices, and reference-dependent preferences. This review provides a guide to bunching estimation, discusses its strengths and weaknesses, surveys a range of applications across fields, and considers reasons for the ubiquity of kinks and notches.

Item Type: Article
Official URL: http://www.annualreviews.org/loi/economics
Additional Information: © 2016 by Annual Reviews
Divisions: Economics
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
JEL classification: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C0 - General > C01 - Econometrics
H - Public Economics > H0 - General > H00 - General
J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J0 - General > J01 - Labor Economics: General
Date Deposited: 09 Mar 2017 14:33
Last Modified: 03 Oct 2024 16:45
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/69766

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