The Carnegie Conjecture: Some Empirical Evidence

Holtz‐Eakin, Douglas; Joulfaian, David; Rosen, Harvey S.

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“…20 Clarke and Wallsten (2003) report that many survey respondents explicitly asked their relatives abroad for monetary help after hurricane Gilbert hit Jamaica.…”

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“…These results would suggest a positive endogeneity bias that leads to an underestimation of the crowding-out of private aid between families. Some individuals might be better at getting private transfers, or simply more willing to accept them, and also have higher income from other sources, including transfers from the government 20 .…”

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Crowding out of private support to the elderly: Evidence from a demogrant in Mexico

Juarez

2009

Journal of Public Economics

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“…20 Clarke and Wallsten (2003) report that many survey respondents explicitly asked their relatives abroad for monetary help after hurricane Gilbert hit Jamaica.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Crowding out of private support to the elderly: Evidence from a demogrant in Mexico

Juarez

2009

Journal of Public Economics

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“…However, the implied responses are quantitatively smaller. 64 There is a literature studying the effects of inheritances on labor supply (e.g., Holtz-Eakin et al 1993;Brown et al 2010;Elinder et al 2012;Bø et al 2016). These studies generally find that inheritances lead to reductions in labor income and earnings as well as increased probability of retirement.…”

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Health responses to a wealth shock: evidence from a Swedish tax reform

Erixson

2017

J Popul Econ

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This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the effects of wealth on health. First, it deals with reverse causality and omitted variable bias by exploiting exogenous variation in inherited wealth generated by the repeal of the Swedish inheritance tax. Second, it analyzes responses in health outcomes through the use of administrative registers. The results show that increased wealth has limited short to medium run impacts on objective adult health. This is in line with what has previously been reported in the literature.

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“…Because donees are better off, as just described, their marginal utility of consumption will fall and, accordingly, we would expect their labor effort to fall. See, e.g., Holtz-Eakin, Joulfaian, and Rosen (1993), Imbens, Rubin, and Sacerdote (1999), Joulfaian and Wilhelm (1994). In the presence of an income tax, this involves a negative externality.…”

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A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation

Kaplow

2000

SSRN Journal

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Whether and how estates and gifts should be taxed has long been a controversial subject, and the approach to estate and gift taxation varies among developed countries. Arguments for and against various forms of transfer taxation have focused on concerns about the distribution of income and wealth, intergenerational equity, raising revenue, savings incentives, and other economic and philosophical issues. This essay has two purposes. The first is to examine the conceptual basis for various arguments for and against the current estate and gift tax regime and proposed alternatives. The second is to integrate policy analysis of transfer taxation with that of the rest of the tax system, notably, the income tax. The analysis begins by considering how it would be optimal to tax transfers if they are viewed simply one of many forms of expenditure by donors, and then it explores how the distinctive features of gifts and bequests may alter the conclusions. The importance of different transfer motives is discussed, and the analysis is reconsidered in the light of the importance of human capital in intergenerational transfers; differences between inter vivos transfers and bequests, between gifts to individuals and gifts to charitable institutions, and among gifts to donees having varying relationships to the donor; and the possibility that transfers are not explained by maximizing behavior. JEL Nos. H21, H23, H24, K34

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The Carnegie Conjecture: Some Empirical Evidence

Cited by 286 publications

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Crowding out of private support to the elderly: Evidence from a demogrant in Mexico

Crowding out of private support to the elderly: Evidence from a demogrant in Mexico

Health responses to a wealth shock: evidence from a Swedish tax reform

A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation

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