Taxation - Personal Income

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, The Conflict Between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle, 1 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 63 (1999).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, The Efficiency of the Legal System Versus the Income Tax in Redistributing Income (NBER Working Paper No. 4457, Sept. 1993).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Distribution and Taxation of the Family (NBER Working Paper No. w4189, Oct. 1992).

Louis Kaplow, Human Capital and the Income Tax (NBER Working Paper No. w4299, Mar. 1993).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Taxation, in 6 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 209 (Steven Durlauf & Lawrence Blume eds., 2d ed. 2008).

Louis Kaplow, Income Taxation and Optimal Government Policy (Harv. L. & Econ. Discussion Paper No. 518, Oct. 12, 2005).

Louis Kaplow, Should the Government’s Allocation Branch Be Concerned About the Distortionary Cost of Taxation and Distributive Effects? (NBER Working Paper No. w4566, Dec. 1993).

Louis Kaplow, Taxation and Redistribution: Some Clarifications, 60 Tax L. Rev. 57 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, Capital Levies and Transition to a Consumption Tax (NBER Working Paper No. w12259, June 1, 2006).

Louis Kaplow, Response: The Income Tax Versus the Consumption Tax and the Tax Treatment of Human Capital, 51 Tax L. Rev. 35 (1997).

Louis Kaplow, Regional Cost-of-Living Adjustments in Tax-Transfer Schemes (NBER Working Paper No. w5008, Feb. 1995).

Louis Kaplow, A Note on the Optimal Supply of Public Goods and the Distortionary Cost of Taxation, 51 Nat’l Tax J. 117 (1998).

Louis Kaplow, The Income Tax as Insurance: The Casualty Loss and Medical Expense Deductions and the Exclusion of the Medical Insurance Premiums, 79 Calif. L.

Louis Kaplow, A Note on Taxation as Social Insurance For Uncertain Labor Income, 49 Pub. Fin. 244 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, Human Capital Under an Ideal Income Tax, 80 Va. L. Rev. 1477 (1994).

Louis Kaplow, On the (Ir)relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy, 18 J. Econ. Persp. 159 (2004).

Louis Kaplow, Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency, 74 U. Chi. L. Rev. 79 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, The Optimal Supply of Public Goods and the Distortionary Cost of Taxation, 49 Nat’l Tax J. 513 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Income Transfers, 14 Int’l Tax & Pub. Fin. 295 (2007).

Louis Kaplow, Accuracy, Complexity, and the Income Tax, 14 J.L. Econ. & Org. (1998).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Distribution and the Family, 98 Scandinavian J. Econ. 75 (1996).