The Top (0.4%) Tail of Finland**: A Tale of Incomes, Tax Rates, and Elasticities from 2009 to 2013

Kyle Ott and Cornelius Schneider

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Project Introduction

This is a repository for our final project for MPP-E1180.

1. Project Presentation

2. Academic Paper

3. Project Website

Repository Contents

• Academic Paper: final_paper.Rmd knits our final submission of final_paper.pdf
• Project Presentation: presentation1.Rmd knits our final submission of presentation1.html
• Project Presentation images: are stored in the Figures folder
• R Scripts: data_scraping.R takes the raw data from the newspaper website; final_loop2.R then cleans our data and also creates summary statistics and plots; inferential_stats2.R runs our analyses
• Data: all.Rdata is our raw data; clean.Rdata is our cleaned raw data; cleaned.Rdata is our time series data; cleaned2.Rdata is a grouped version of cleaned; cleaned5obs.Rdata is our panel dataset of 5 years; panelmodel3.Rdata is our special panel dataset of three time periods that we used to run our fixed effects model
• References: papers stored in main1.bib and packages stored in packages1.bib
• Extra: this folder contains older versions of working files that we have kept for safe-keeping (they are not relevant for our final project)

Contact

Comments on the proposal can be submitted to [Kyle Ott](mailto: k.ott@mpp.hertie-school.org(k.ott@mpp.hertie-school.org)) or [Cornelius Schneider](mailto: c.schneider@mpp.hertie-school.org(c.schneider@mpp.hertie-school.org)).