Essays in public economics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation explores several topics in public economics related to income inequality, taxation, and redistribution. The first chapter argues that labor supply elasticities encode information about the determinants of income inequality, showing how reduced-form labor supply elasticities can be used to isolate the components of income due to productivities vs. preferences. The second chapter investigates a previously unexplored rationale for imposing conditions on cash transfers in developing countries, arguing that conditions based on children's school enrollment may actually improve the targeting of transfers to low consumption households. The third chapter explores how our theoretical understanding of optimal income taxation changes if we allow for the possibility that individuals jump discontinuously around the tax schedule in response to small changes in tax rates.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Dodds, William Christopher |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Degree supervisor | Hoxby, Caroline Minter |
| Thesis advisor | Bernheim, B. Douglas |
| Thesis advisor | Hoxby, Caroline Minter |
| Thesis advisor | Chetty, Raj |
| Degree committee member | Chetty, Raj |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Economics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | William Dodds. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Economics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by William Christopher Dodds
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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