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  • February 2010
  • Article

The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

By: N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl
Should the income tax include a credit for short taxpayers and a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Wages; Personal Characteristics
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    • 24 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Equalizing Outcomes vs. Equalizing Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children’s Abilities Depend on Parents’ Resources

    Keywords: by Alexander Gelber & Matthew Weinzierl
    • 19 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

    Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

    My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

    • 15 Sep 2016
    • News

    Harvard study singles out a game-changing economic opportunity

    • 28 Sep 2010
    • News

    Hey Big Spenders: The Trickle-Down Argument

    • 14 Sep 2017
    • News

    Study: US Government Its Own Worst Enemy

    • 2012
    • Article

    The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

    By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira
    Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions relative to what would arise with early policy resolution. In so doing, it... View Details
    Keywords: Saving; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement; Policy; Government and Politics
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    • 15 Aug 2014
    • News

    Getting a handle on inversion

    • 1 Apr 2013
    • Interview

    Restoring U.S. Competitiveness: Professor Michael Porter in an interview with Charlie Rose

    By: Michael E. Porter
    "There is an historic opportunity right now for business and government to work together [to restore U.S. competitiveness]." Professor Porter discusses the eight federal policy priorities that business leaders and policymakers, liberals and conservatives agree will... View Details
    Keywords: U.S. Competitiveness; Competition; Policy; Global Strategy; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    • 26 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 26

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad Authors:Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract Deferral of U.S. View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June – July 2008
    • Article

    A Better Approach to Foreign Aid

    By: Justin Muzinich and Eric D. Werker
    Frustration with U.S. foreign aid is widespread. At the same time, flows of private development finance—including foreign direct investment and remittances—have begun to dwarf official aid. We suggest a new approach that harnesses the power of private development... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Taxation; Welfare or Wellbeing; United States
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    • 05 Dec 2016
    • News

    How Trump can help Main Street businesses

    • 01 Jun 2012
    • News

    What Industrial Policy?

    • 01 Jan 2012
    • News

    Gingrich's frightening fiscal fantasies

    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

    By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
    This paper analyzes the impact on firm behavior of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; United States
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    • 2015
    • Book

    MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,... View Details
    Keywords: United States; Railroad History; Airlines; Airline Industry; Air Transportation; Passenger Transportation; Cities; Urban Planning; Freighting; Change; Leadership; Public Policy; Change Leadership; Public Finance; Infrastructure; Policy; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Leading Change; Urban Development; Project Finance; Entrepreneurship; City; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Rail Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • 24 Jan 2012
    • News

    Free-Market Socialism

    • July 2018
    • Article

    Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

    By: Matthew Weinzierl
    This article incorporates into modern optimal tax theory the classical logic of benefit‐based taxation in which an individual's benefit from the activities of the state is tied to his or her income‐earning ability. First‐best optimal policy is characterized... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Theory; Policy
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