Caroline E. Weber

Assistant Professor

University of Oregon

cweber5@uoregon.edu

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. I specialize in empirical taxation research and applied microeconometrics. Areas of particular interest include individual income taxation, tax evasion, and housing.

Working Papers

• Obtaining a Consistent Estimate of the Elasticity of Taxable Income Using Difference-in- Differences (Revision requested, Journal of Public Economics).
• Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Reduce Saving by Low-Income Households?.
• The Fixed-Bracket Average Treatment Effect: A Constructive Alternative to LATE Analysis for Tax Policy.
• The Lock-In Effect of Housing Transfer Taxes: Evidence from a Notched Change in D.C. Policy (with Joel Slemrod and Hui Shan).

Publications

• Evidence of the Invisible: Toward a Credibility Revolution in the Empirical Analysis of Tax Evasion and the Informal Economy (with Joel Slemrod; International Tax and Public Finance, 19(1): 25-53).

   Last updated: July 2012