作者：Garin, Andrew; Jackson, Emilie; Koustas, Dmitri
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Michigan State University; University of Chicago
摘要：We show that increases in the share of workers reporting self-employment to the IRS are not associated with changes infirm-reported payments to gig and other contract workers after 2005 but are driven primarily by self-reported earnings of individuals in the EITC phase-in range. We examine a regression discontinuity design that generates exogenous variation in tax rates at the end of the year after labor supply decisions are already sunk and find tax code incentives increase self-employment re...
作者：Shrinivas, Aditya; Baylis, Kathy; Crost, Benjamin
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University of Calgary
摘要：biggest expansions in food transfers in history, affecting over 500 million people. We use plausibly exogenous variation created by the NFSA to estimate the effect of food transfers on child nutrition. Using individual panel data across eight states in India over five years, we find that increased transfers significantly reduced stunting. The food transfers increased wage incomes and improved dietary diversity. Our results suggest that, in the states we study, the NFSA prevented approximately ...
