A welfare evaluation of the 1986 tax reform for married couples in the United States |
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Authors: | Matteo Picchio Giacomo Valletta |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Economics and Social Sciences,Marche Polytechnic University,Ancona,Italy;2.Sherppa, Ghent University,Ghent,Belgium;3.IZA,Bonn,Germany;4.Faculty of Law and Economics,EDHEC Business School,Roubaix Cedex 1,France |
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Abstract: | This paper evaluates the welfare effects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA86). We rely on different welfare metrics, which fully retain preference heterogeneity and are based on different ethical priors. We estimate utility functions with preference heterogeneity on the basis of structural models of family labor supply. Then, using these estimated preferences, we compute and compare different well-being rankings corresponding to different ways of measuring well-being. Finally, we identify the losers and the winners of TRA86, in absolute and relative terms, for each of the welfare metrics. |
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