THE OPTIMAL TAXATION OF HEIGHT:
A CASE STUDY OF UTILITARIAN INCOME REDISTRIBUTION
N. Gregory Mankiw
Matthew Weinzierl
Working Paper 14976
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14976
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May 2009

We are grateful to Ruchir Agarwal for excellent research assistance and to Alan Auerbach, Robert Barro, Raj Chetty, Emmanuel Farhi, Ed Glaeser, Louis Kaplow, Andrew Postlewaite, David Romer, Julio Rotemberg, Alex Tabarrok, Aleh Tsyvinski, Ivan Werning,and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and discussions. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.© 2009 by N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source.