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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 24.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Econ Lett. 2012 Jul 11;20(4):353–357. doi: 10.1080/13504851.2012.705422

Table 2.

Tax pass-through results

Quadratic time State quadratic time Year fixed effects



Mean (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Real state + federal tax 0.840 (SD = 0.427) 0.942** (0.045) 0.763** (0.079) 1.030** (0.028)
Real state + federal + escrow tax 1.022 (SD = 0.491) 1.087** (0.031) 1.090** (0.046)
Implied tax elasticity [0.275] [0.427] [0.222] [0.428] [0.300]/[0.405]
Unemployment rate 0.044 (SD = 0.012) −0.022 (0.014) 0.009 (0.010) −0.030 (0.022) 0.038* (0.017) −0.006 (0.010)
Percent white 0.822 (SD = 0.138) −3.187 (2.814) 0.203 (2.145) −6.677 (6.720) −4.031 (4.989) 1.226 (1.715)
Percent black 0.113 (SD = 0.117) −0.501 (3.358) 0.586 (2.552) 5.290 (14.331) −0.670 (10.673) 0.729 (2.079)
Percent female 0.508 (SD = 0.008) −22.250 (14.861) −3.247 (11.327) −124.680** (33.430) −41.471 (25.182) −3.137 (9.075)
Percentage of people aged 0–9 0.090 (SD = 0.031) −8.393* (3.897) −3.410 (2.959) −7.769 (11.312) 8.142 (8.471) −3.396 (3.435)
Percentage of people aged 10–19 0.101 (SD = 0.037) 4.255* (2.137) 2.116 (1.622) 17.973* (8.475) 4.266 (6.345) 4.830** (1.843)
Percentage of people aged 20–29 0.095 (SD = 0.035) −3.274 (2.717) −1.119 (2.060) −24.141** (6.224) −14.090** (4.627) 2.961 (2.019)
Percentage of people aged 30–49 0.146 (SD = 0.008) 5.096 (5.961) −0.155 (4.527) 58.934** (13.140) 17.685 (9.798) −0.807 (4.180)
Percentage of people aged 50–64 0.088 (SD = 0.009) 13.185* (6.619) 1.555 (5.061) 85.902** (14.749) 31.364** (11.086) −1.262 (4.627)
Percentage of people aged 65+ 0.087 (SD = 0.033) −2.567 (1.970) −1.147 (1.496) −17.591** (4.115) −8.584** (3.086) 0.570 (1.839)
Per capita income/1000 29.3 (SD = 6.56) 0.002 (0.009) 0.003 (0.007) 0.009 (0.023) 0.034* (0.017) −0.001 (0.009)
Constant 14.593 (9.168) 2.941 (6.989) 57.212** (18.354) 21.127 (13.780) 1.298 (5.796)
Observations 663 663 663 663 663
R2 0.94 0.97 0.95 0.97 0.98

Notes: SEs are given in parentheses. Elasticities are given in square brackets.

* and **Denote significance at the 5% and 1% levels, respectively.