Spencer Bastani
Adjunct Professor at Department of Economics; Department faculty
- E-mail:
- spencer.bastani@ifau.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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Researcher at Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 70 77
- E-mail:
- spencer.bastani@ifau.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Kyrkogårdsg. 6
- Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
Keywords
- public economics
Publications
Selection of publications
Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation
Part of Economica, p. 532-569, 2021
Bunching and non-bunching at kink points of the Swedish tax schedule
Part of Journal of Public Economics, p. 36-49, 2014
Welfare Gains Of Age-Related Optimal Income Taxation
Part of International Economic Review, p. 1219-1249, 2013
Recent publications
Optimal housing taxation with land scarcity and maintenance: A Mirrleesian perspective
Part of European Economic Review, 2025
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Household specialization and competition for promotion
Part of Review of Economics of the Household, p. 141-163, 2025
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Optimal Redistribution and Education Signaling
Part of International Economic Review, 2025
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How Should Consumption Be Taxed?
Part of Finanzarchiv, p. 259-302, 2024
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The marginal value of public funds: a brief guide and application to tax policy
Part of International Tax and Public Finance, 2024
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Optimal housing taxation with land scarcity and maintenance: A Mirrleesian perspective
Part of European Economic Review, 2025
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Household specialization and competition for promotion
Part of Review of Economics of the Household, p. 141-163, 2025
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Optimal Redistribution and Education Signaling
Part of International Economic Review, 2025
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How Should Consumption Be Taxed?
Part of Finanzarchiv, p. 259-302, 2024
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The marginal value of public funds: a brief guide and application to tax policy
Part of International Tax and Public Finance, 2024
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Taxing the wealthy: the choice between wealth and capital income taxation
Part of Oxford review of economic policy, p. 604-616, 2023
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Nonlinear taxation of income and education in the presence of income-misreporting
Part of Journal of Public Economic Theory, p. 679-726, 2023
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Immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment
Part of Small Business Economics, p. 1661-1697, 2022
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Simple equilibria in general contests
Part of Games and Economic Behavior, p. 264-280, 2022
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Perceptions of Inherited Wealth and the Support for Inheritance Taxation
Part of Economica, p. 532-569, 2021
The ability gradient in tax responsiveness
Part of Journal of Public Economics Plus, 2021
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Part of Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, p. 1287-1310, 2021
- DOI for Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
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Part of Journal of Economic Surveys, p. 812-846, 2020
Ethnicity and tax filing behavior
Part of Journal of Urban Economics, p. 103215-103215, 2020
Pareto efficient income taxation without single-crossing
Part of Social Choice and Welfare, p. 547-594, 2020
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Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation
Part of American Economic Journal, p. 1-37, 2020
The Welfare-Enhancing Role of Parental Leave Mandates
Part of Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, p. 77-126, 2019
Nonlinear and piecewise linear income taxation, and the subsidization of work-related goods
Part of International Tax and Public Finance, p. 806-834, 2019
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Political preferences for redistribution in Sweden
Part of Journal of Economic Inequality, p. 345-367, 2017
Optimal commodity taxation with varying quality of goods
Part of Research in Economics, p. 89-100, 2016
Using the Discrete Model to Derive Optimal Income Tax Rates
Part of Finanzarchiv, p. 106-117, 2015
Optimal wage redistribution in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market
Part of Journal of Public Economics, p. 41-57, 2015
Bunching and non-bunching at kink points of the Swedish tax schedule
Part of Journal of Public Economics, p. 36-49, 2014
Gender-Based and Couple-Based Taxation
Part of International Tax and Public Finance, p. 653-686, 2013
Welfare Gains Of Age-Related Optimal Income Taxation
Part of International Economic Review, p. 1219-1249, 2013
Articles, review/survey
How should commodities be taxed?: A counter-argument to the recommendation in the Mirrlees Review
Part of Oxford Economic Papers, p. 455-478, 2015
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Chapters in book
Part of Handbook on Labour Market Transformations, Edward Elgar, 2024
Wealth and Inheritance Taxation: Theory and Evidence from the Nordic Countries
Part of Tax by Design for the Netherlands, Oxford University Press, 2021
Public Pensions in a Multi-Period Mirrleesian Income Tax Model
Part of The Taxation of Pensions, The MIT Press, 2018