A heated debate on gender-based taxation

I mentioned this article from VoxEU by Alessina et al a while ago (1st bullet point). Meanwhile Gilles Saint-Paul came forth with a tough critique and Alessina, Ichino and Karabarbounis have replied today.

All very interesting (& most likely this is just the warming up stage…), but I really think all these researchers are (most likely willingly…) missing the more general point raised by Greg Mankiw (this is a great paper, by the way!).
PS. Everything in these entries is self-explanatory, so you won’t get additional comments from me this time– unless you really insist, that is…
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2 thoughts on “A heated debate on gender-based taxation”

  1. This what the paper is about (I trust you refer to Mankiw and Weinzierl’s here), after all: challenging the whole basis of taxation as currently practiced. As we all know, that is largely based on considerations other than Economics :-). I have not gone into details in their modelling for obvious reasons of time constraints, but I strongly doubt that "torn apart" is more than just a personal

  2. It seems more of a philosophical question rather than actual Economics. A lot of their conclusions are just driven by the assumptions of the model. Their paper was torn apart in the Fall when it was presented here.

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