Edward J Mccaffery
Biographic Data
| ID | 4127112 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward J Mccaffery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccaffery |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAFFERY E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-1558-0110 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Behavioral Economics and the Law: Tax
This chapter argues that a behavioral law and economics approach to tax is deeply needed for a wider normative analysis of the impacts of law on social welfare. The absence of traditional markets to serve as arbitrage mechanisms in public finance means that suboptimal tax and fiscal systems can arise and persist for long periods of time. Most of the current scholarly applications of behavioral approaches to tax, however, fail to take into account…
Sex Differences in the Acceptability of Discrimination
A large telephone survey conducted after the attacks of September 11, 2001, suggests that the willingness to tolerate discrimination varies significantly across domains, with a very high tolerance of discrimination against poorly educated immigrants and a strikingly low tolerance of discrimination against the genetically disadvantaged. Regardless of domain, tolerance is greater among men than among women. A survey conducted simultaneously over th…
Thinking About Tax
Isolation effects and the neglect of indirect effects of fiscal policies
People tend to focus on salient cues, ignoring others. We demonstrate such isolation effects in situations involving taxes and public finance, through experiments conducted on the World Wide Web. In general, subjects minimized or ignored the longer‐term or indirect effects of tax policies, such as price increases from business taxes. Subjects preferred “hidden” taxes to transparent ones, failing to think through who would ultimately pay. The pref…
Thinking about tax
This article reports the findings of several experiments about perceptions of various aspects of tax-law design. The authors find that people are vulnerable to a wide range of heuristics and biases in evaluating public finance systems, leading to inconsistent judgments and evaluations. These errors in judgment are specific instances of a more general isolation effect, whereby people respond quickly to a decision or choice set, focusing on salient…
Framing and taxation: Evaluation of tax policies involving household composition
Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web
Objective. This article aims to expand research about perceptions of discrimination both substantively and methodologically beyond the domains of race and ethnicity, relying partly on web‐based surveys. Methods. We conducted parallel surveys over the telephone and the World‐Wide Web, using standard random‐digit dial (RDD) techniques for the former, and a large volunteer panel for the latter. Results. Both modes, phone and web, revealed that respo…
Are There Sex Differences in Fiscal Political Preferences
Are There Sex Differences in Fiscal Political Preferences
This article examines the relationship between attitudes on potential uses of the budget surplus and sex. Survey results from the Fall of 1999 show relatively weak support overall for using a projected surplus to reduce taxes, with respondents more likely to prefer increased social spending on education or social security. There were, however, significant sex differences, confirmed by multinomial logit analysis: men were far more likely than wome…
The Political Liberal Case Against the Estate Tax
Are There Sex Differences in Fiscal Political Preferences
This article examines the relationship between attitudes on potential uses of the budget surplus and sex. Survey results from the Fall of 1999 show relatively weak support overall for using a projected surplus to reduce taxes, with respondents more likely to prefer increased social spending on education or social security. There were, however, significant sex differences, confirmed by multinomial logit analysis: men were far more likely than wome…
Thinking about tax
This article reports the findings of several experiments about perceptions of various aspects of tax-law design. The authors find that people are vulnerable to a wide range of heuristics and biases in evaluating public finance systems, leading to inconsistent judgments and evaluations. These errors in judgment are specific instances of a more general isolation effect, whereby people respond quickly to a decision or choice set, focusing on salient…
Sex Differences in the Acceptability of Discrimination
A large telephone survey conducted after the attacks of September 11, 2001, suggests that the willingness to tolerate discrimination varies significantly across domains, with a very high tolerance of discrimination against poorly educated immigrants and a strikingly low tolerance of discrimination against the genetically disadvantaged. Regardless of domain, tolerance is greater among men than among women. A survey conducted simultaneously over th…
Framing and taxation: Evaluation of tax policies involving household composition
The Political Liberal Case Against the Estate Tax
Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web
Objective. This article aims to expand research about perceptions of discrimination both substantively and methodologically beyond the domains of race and ethnicity, relying partly on web‐based surveys. Methods. We conducted parallel surveys over the telephone and the World‐Wide Web, using standard random‐digit dial (RDD) techniques for the former, and a large volunteer panel for the latter. Results. Both modes, phone and web, revealed that respo…
Isolation effects and the neglect of indirect effects of fiscal policies
People tend to focus on salient cues, ignoring others. We demonstrate such isolation effects in situations involving taxes and public finance, through experiments conducted on the World Wide Web. In general, subjects minimized or ignored the longer‐term or indirect effects of tax policies, such as price increases from business taxes. Subjects preferred “hidden” taxes to transparent ones, failing to think through who would ultimately pay. The pref…
The Political Liberal Case Against the Estate Tax
Are There Sex Differences in Fiscal Political Preferences
Are There Sex Differences in Fiscal Political Preferences
This article examines the relationship between attitudes on potential uses of the budget surplus and sex. Survey results from the Fall of 1999 show relatively weak support overall for using a projected surplus to reduce taxes, with respondents more likely to prefer increased social spending on education or social security. There were, however, significant sex differences, confirmed by multinomial logit analysis: men were far more likely than wome…
Framing and taxation: Evaluation of tax policies involving household composition
Expanding Discrimination Research: Beyond Ethnicity and to the Web
Objective. This article aims to expand research about perceptions of discrimination both substantively and methodologically beyond the domains of race and ethnicity, relying partly on web‐based surveys. Methods. We conducted parallel surveys over the telephone and the World‐Wide Web, using standard random‐digit dial (RDD) techniques for the former, and a large volunteer panel for the latter. Results. Both modes, phone and web, revealed that respo…
Thinking About Tax
Isolation effects and the neglect of indirect effects of fiscal policies
People tend to focus on salient cues, ignoring others. We demonstrate such isolation effects in situations involving taxes and public finance, through experiments conducted on the World Wide Web. In general, subjects minimized or ignored the longer‐term or indirect effects of tax policies, such as price increases from business taxes. Subjects preferred “hidden” taxes to transparent ones, failing to think through who would ultimately pay. The pref…
Thinking about tax
This article reports the findings of several experiments about perceptions of various aspects of tax-law design. The authors find that people are vulnerable to a wide range of heuristics and biases in evaluating public finance systems, leading to inconsistent judgments and evaluations. These errors in judgment are specific instances of a more general isolation effect, whereby people respond quickly to a decision or choice set, focusing on salient…
Sex Differences in the Acceptability of Discrimination
A large telephone survey conducted after the attacks of September 11, 2001, suggests that the willingness to tolerate discrimination varies significantly across domains, with a very high tolerance of discrimination against poorly educated immigrants and a strikingly low tolerance of discrimination against the genetically disadvantaged. Regardless of domain, tolerance is greater among men than among women. A survey conducted simultaneously over th…
Behavioral Economics and the Law: Tax
This chapter argues that a behavioral law and economics approach to tax is deeply needed for a wider normative analysis of the impacts of law on social welfare. The absence of traditional markets to serve as arbitrage mechanisms in public finance means that suboptimal tax and fiscal systems can arise and persist for long periods of time. Most of the current scholarly applications of behavioral approaches to tax, however, fail to take into account…
Political science (9 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public economics (4 works) · Taxation and Compliance Studies (4 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (3 works)