@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp18544,
            	author={Lavecchia, Adam M. and McKercher, Robert and Tazhitdinova, Alisa},
            	title={Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Impact of Taxation on Canadian Inter-Provincial Migration},
            	year={2026},
	month={Apr},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={18544},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp18544},
	abstract={This paper estimates the causal effect of income taxation on inter-provincial migration in Canada. We exploit a major tax decentralization reform between 1998-2001 that led to some provinces lowering their marginal and average tax rates more than others, particularly for top earners. Using a difference-in-differences design, we estimate a population stock-elasticity with respect to the net-of-average-tax rate of about 2.5-3 for young, unmarried high-income individuals. The estimates for older and married individuals are smaller and mostly statistically insignificant. We find that the population stock elasticity estimates are driven by a reduction the likelihood that young, unmarried and high-income individuals emigrate from their province of residence (i.e. out-migration) rather than a change to in-migration. This suggests that individuals react more strongly to tax changes in their home province rather than tax changes in other provinces.},
	keywords={migration;taxation;within-country mobility},
            }