Quantitative evidence on the welfare effects of home sector fiscal policy

A home production model that explicitly accounts for taxes and public expenditures on day-care and elder-care, substitutes for work households perform at home, is used to evaluate the welfare implications of alternative public expenditure policies. Both subsidy and workfare policies are welfare improving relative to a model where tax revenues are rebated lump sum. The welfare gains from optimal home sector policy design can be large.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Ragan, Kelly S.
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 118.2013, 2, p. 400-403
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Home production \| Public expenditures \| Subsidy \| Workfare

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; E26 - Informal Economy; Underground Economy ; E62 - Fiscal Policy; Public Expenditures, Investment, and Finance; Taxation
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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