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Bunching

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  • Henrik Jacobsen Kleven

    (Department of Economics, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom)

Abstract

Recent years have seen a surge of applied work using bunching approaches, a development that is closely linked to the increased availability of administrative data. These approaches exploit the incentives for bunching created by discontinuities in the slope of choice sets (kinks) or in the level of choice sets (notches) to study the behavior of individuals and firms. Although the bunching approach was originally developed in the context of taxation, it is beginning to find applications in many other areas, such as social security, social insurance, welfare programs, education, regulation, private sector prices, and reference-dependent preferences. This review provides a guide to bunching estimation, discusses its strengths and weaknesses, surveys a range of applications across fields, and considers reasons for the ubiquity of kinks and notches.

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  • Henrik Jacobsen Kleven, 2016. "Bunching," Annual Review of Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 8(1), pages 435-464, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:anr:reveco:v:8:y:2016:p:435-464
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    Cited by:

    1. Katrine Jakobsen & Kristian Jakobsen & Henrik Kleven & Gabriel Zucman, 2020. "Wealth Taxation and Wealth Accumulation: Theory and Evidence From Denmark," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 135(1), pages 329-388.
    2. Marx Benjamin M., 2024. "Dynamic Bunching Estimation with Panel Data," Journal of Econometric Methods, De Gruyter, vol. 13(2), pages 225-249.
    3. Juliana Londoño-Vélez & Javier Avila-Mahecha, 2024. "Behavioral Responses to Wealth Taxation: Evidence from Colombia," NBER Working Papers 32134, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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    Keywords

    bunching estimation; kinks; notches; structural parameters; optimization frictions; reference dependence;
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    JEL classification:

    • H00 - Public Economics - - General - - - General
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • C01 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - General - - - Econometrics

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