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Matthieu Chtioui
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PhD in economics. Interested in public finance, development, philosophy, statistics, geography.
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"it is difficult to use empirical tax elasticities for policy because tax base elasticities are not structural parameters – they are shaped by tax design. [...] Because such features vary across contexts, elasticities estimated in one setting often don’t generalise to others."
voxeu.org VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · Jul 4
Fewer reporting requirements had large negative effects on French wealth tax compliance, w/ 35% of wealth taxpayers missing in affected brackets & evading 10% of payments each year.
@bgarbinti.bsky.social @s-stantcheva.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al.
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#EconSky
Graph that shows bunching at the €2.57 million 2013 3rd tax bracket simplification threshold. Many countries are considering introducing or reforming their wealth tax policies. This column studies the effects of a French wealth tax reform, which reduced reporting requirements, on taxpayer behaviour. The scaling back of reporting requirements had large negative effects on tax compliance, with 35% of wealth taxpayers missing in affected brackets and evading 10% of their total wealth tax payments each year. The findings indicate that taxpayers are more likely to under-report the value of less easily verifiable assets such as housing, whereas financial assets are more transparent and thus harder to manipulate.
July 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
matthieuch.bsky.social
Interesting thoughts by Robert Kubinec on why DiD is not necessarily better at causal identification than other methods for panel data.

www.robertkubinec.com/post/did_dnd/

I also recommend Kropko and Kubinec (2020) on intepretation of one-way and two-way fixed effects models.

#EconSky
What Difference-in-Differences Has in Common with Dungeons & Dragons – Homepage
I discuss why DiD is not the panacea for causal inference that it is often claimed–like all assumptions, the assumptions of DiD can only be validated within a certain research design, and there is no ...
www.robertkubinec.com
May 16, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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alvespina.bsky.social
This is a great article in the latest issue of the JEP for anyone teaching panel methods (any level). Love this history of economic terms and ideas feature. #Econsky

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May 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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insee.fr
#Conjoncture | La Note de conjoncture de mars « Désordre mondial, croissance en berne » est parue ! Retrouvez nos prévisions pour l’économie française et internationale
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March 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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L’Insee est désormais sur Bluesky ! Dorénavant, vous pouvez également retrouver nos publications en suivant notre compte @insee.fr. Abonnez-vous !
February 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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laurennross.bsky.social
New book "Explanation in Biology" with Cambridge University Press is out & open access!

Covers (1) causal explanation & (2) non-causal/mathematical explanation in life sciences--bio, neuro, etc 🌿🧬🧠

Introduction to philosophical work on scientific explanation!

www.cambridge.org/core/element...
January 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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economeager.bsky.social
Sometimes you have to write “Truth and Probability” just because Margaret won’t fuck with you.

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Taking Our Chances
This one's for the academy, I guess
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January 18, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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diegopuga.org
These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):
December 27, 2024 at 4:23 PM