Econ 309:  Taxes and Labor Supply

Link to slides

• • Lecture notes on Taxes and Labor Supply

  • Scoring the effects of higher taxes on labor supply (Slate, February 14, 2011)

  • Greg Mankiw on how higher marginal tax rates on upper-income will cause him to cut back his labor supply (New York Times, October 10,  2010)

    • Michael Kinsley says that Mankiw is exaggerating  (Politico, October 10, 2010)

    • Mankiw says that Kinsley has no clue (Mankiw's blog, October 20, 2010)

For interest:

• • How do the phase-outs of various welfare programs work as marginal tax rates on income?  (Von Mises Institute, Nov. 9, 2009)

  • Changes in the EITC (New Republic, Feb. 5, 2010)

  • "The EITC, America's Most Effective Anti-Poverty Program"  (The New Republic, April 15, 2010)