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// playbooks / taxation-fiscal-policy · eti_bunching_replication

Eti Bunching Replication

step_count: 5· runtime: —

Implements the Saez (2010 AEJ:EP) bunching estimator to identify behavioral responses to marginal tax rates at income kink points. Uses IRS Statistics of Income (SOI) public use microdata. The bunching methodology is a gold standard for estimating the ETI without requiring policy reform experiments. Compares wage earners vs. self-employed — the core result showing self-employed bunch at EITC kinks but wage earners do not.

// pipeline
5 steps
01

action acquire_data
02

action identify_kinks
03

action estimate_bunching
04

action compare_to_saez_table1
05

action record_findings
// from pax
Taxation and Fiscal Policy
// engines
engine.ols_regression
// note
step bodies extracted from the .pax archive at build time. download the parent pax for the full yaml.
[ download taxation-fiscal-policy.pax.tar.gz ]