Teaching the tax code: Earnings responses to an experiment with EITC recipients

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-31

  Chetty, Raj ^a,c   Saez, Emmanuel ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

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EID: 84873503917     PISSN: 19457782     EISSN: 19457790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/app.5.1.1     Document Type: Article

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