TaxProf Blog Updated : 2010-09-06T09:11:00Z NPR: Allowance Economics -- Candy, Taxes And Potty Training NPR All Things Considered, Allowance Economics: Candy, Taxes And Potty Training, by Chana Joffe-Walt: Joshua Gans [an economics professor at the University of Melbourne in Australia] came up with a special incentive plan for candy. If [his daughter] B. wanted to buy candy, she would have to pay her parents... Author : Paul Caron Publ.Date : 2010-09-06T09:11:00Z Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads This week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads is the same as last week's list: 1. [1032 Downloads] Social Security Benefits Formula 101: A Practical Primer, by Francine J. Lipman (Chapman) & James E. Williamson (San Diego State University, College of Business Administration) 2. [682 Downloads] Constitutional... Author : Paul Caron Publ.Date : 2010-09-05T13:21:56Z Risky Human Capital and Deferred Capital Income Taxation Borys Grochulski (University of Minnesota, Department of Economics) & Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia Business School) have published Risky Human Capital and Deferred Capital Income Taxation, 145 J. Econ. Theory 908 (2010). Here is the abstract: We study the structure of optimal wedges and capital taxes in a dynamic Mirrlees economy with... Author : Paul Caron Publ.Date : 2010-09-05T09:44:02Z 'Unemployed J.D.' Says She's Ended Her Hunger Strike After 24 Days Following up on my prior posts: Unemployed J.D. Begins Hunger Strike Aimed at 10 Law Schools (Aug. 6, 2010) More on 'Unemployed JD's' Hunger Strike (Aug. 9, 2010) 'Unemployed J.D.’ Hunger Striker Reveals Identity in USA Today (Aug. 24, 2010) In a statement, Zenovia Evans announced that she ended the... Author : Paul Caron Publ.Date : 2010-09-04T10:36:38Z Questions Raised About Tax-Exempt Status for Ground Zero Imam Wife's Apartment Washington Examiner, New York Imam’s Nonexistent Mosque: Feisal Abdul Rauf, the New York imam and State Department envoy who wants to build a controversial new mosque at Ground Zero, applied for – and received – tax-exempt status from the IRS in 1998 for another mosque about 10 blocks from the... Author : Paul Caron Publ.Date : 2010-09-03T20:38:16Z Striking Graphic on Student Loans Here. (Hat Tip: Above the Law.) Author : Paul Caron Publ.Date : 2010-09-03T17:51:24Z