Taxation

Louis Kaplow, Commentary on Chapter 5, in The Economics of Tax Policy (Alan J. Auerbach & Kent Smetters eds., 2017).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Regulation with Exemptions, 66 Int’l J. Indus. Reg., Sept. 2019, at 1.

Louis Kaplow, Government Policy and Labor Supply with Myopic or Targeted Savings Decisions 29 Tax Pol’y & Econ. 159 (2015).

Louis Kaplow, A Distribution-Neutral Perspective on Tax Expenditure Limitations, 31 Tax Pol’y & Econ. 161 (2017).

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

Louis Kaplow & Steven M. Shavell, On the Superiority of Corrective Taxes to Quantity Regulation, 4 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 1 (2002).

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, The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics (Princeton Univ. Press 2008).

Louis Kaplow, Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change (NBER Working Paper No. w16268, Aug. 2010).

Louis Kaplow, On the Taxation of Private Transfers (NBER Working Paper No. w15818, Mar. 2010).

Louis Kaplow, Utility from Accumulation, Proc. Ann. Conf. on Tax’n, 2009, at 189.

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

Louis Kaplow, Taxation, in 1 Handbook of Law and Economics 647 (A. Mitchell Polinsky & Steven Shavell eds., 2007).

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, Transfer Motives and Tax Policy (Nat’l Bureau Econ. Res., Working Paper No. w6340, Mar. 1999).

Louis Kaplow, A Framework for Assessing Estate and Gift Taxation, in Rethinking Estate and Gift Taxation 154 (William G. Gale, James R. Hines & Joel…

Louis Kaplow, Transition Policy: A Conceptual Framework, 13 J. Contemp. Legal Issues 161 (2003).

Louis Kaplow, Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles (NBER Working Paper No. w7649, Apr. 2000).

Louis Kaplow, An Optimal Tax System, 32 Fiscal Stud. 415 (2011).

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, Optimal Taxation with Costly Enforcement and Evasion, 43 J. Pub. Econ. 221 (1990).

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, An Ex Ante Perspective on Deregulation, Viewed Ex Post, 15 Resource & Energy Econ. 153 (1993).

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, An Economic Analysis of Legal Transitions, 99 Harv. L. Rev. 509 (1986).

Louis Kaplow, Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation, 53 Int’l. Econ. Rev. 487 (2012).

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

Louis Kaplow, Taxation and Risk Taking: A General Equilibrium Perspective, 47 Nat’l Tax J. 789 (1994).

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, Horizontal Equity: Measures in Search of a Principle, 42 Nat’l Tax J. 139 (1989).

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

Louis Kaplow, Fiscal Federalism and the Deductibility of State and Local Taxes Under the Federal Income Tax, 82 Va. L. Rev. 413 (1996).

Louis Kaplow, Tax Policy and Gifts, 88 Am. Econ. Rev. 283 (1998).

Louis Kaplow, Myopia and the Effects of Social Security and Capital Taxation on Labor Supply, 68 Nat’l Tax J. 1 (2015).

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

Louis Kaplow, A Note on Subsidizing Gifts, 58 J. Pub. Econ. 469 (1995).

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

Louis Kaplow, Public Goods and the Distribution of Income, 50 Eur. Econ. Rev. 1627 (2006).

Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Should Legal Rules Favor the Poor? Clarifying the Role of Legal Rules and the Income Tax in Redistributing Income, 29…

Louis Kaplow, Government Relief for Risk Associated with Government Action, 94 Scandinavian J. Econ. 525 (1992).

Louis Kaplow, Income-Tax Deductions For Losses as Insurance, 82 Am. Econ. Rev. 1013 (1992).