Household Response to the 2008 Tax Rebate: Survey Evidence and Aggregate Implications

Claudia R. Sahm, Matthew D. Shapiro, Joel B. Slemrod

NBER Working Paper No. 15421
Issued in October 2009

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The authors are grateful to Jeffrey Brown, Christian Broda, Christopher Carroll, Richard Curtin, Eric Engen, Andrew Figura, Glenn Follette, Arthur Kennickell, David Lebow, Rebecca McBee, Jonathan Parker, Daniel Sichel, and Nicholas Souleles for helpful comments and discussion. Brandon Gipper and Catherine Muething provided excellent research assistance. The Federal Reserve Board and the Office of Tax Policy Research at the University of Michigan supported the data collection for this project. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Board. 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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