Did the 2008 Tax Rebates Stimulate Spending?

Matthew D. Shapiro, Joel B. Slemrod

NBER Working Paper No. 14753
Issued in February 2009

---- Acknowledgements -----

We are grateful to Richard Curtin for advice in the design of the survey instrument, to Jonathan Parker and Nicholas Souleles for valuable discussion, and to Christian Broda and Jonathan Parker for providing a tabulation based on research in progress. Shapiro gratefully acknowledges the funding of National Institute on Aging grant 2-P01-AG10179 for partially supporting the data collection. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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