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microsimulation model that reproduces the system of taxes and transfers in 2002 Quebec, we measure the EMTRs that result from the …
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comportement des agents économiques. À l'aide d'un modèle de microsimulation comptable reproduisant les systèmes d'impôts et de …
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This paper attempts to quantify the private and public economic value of reducing obesity through pharmaceutical and medical interventions. We find that the economic value of such treatments, in particular bariatric surgery, is large for treated patients, with incremental cost-effectiveness...
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In this paper, we measure the welfare costs/gains associated with financial market incompleteness in a monetary union … rise to a lower volatility of national inflation rates, which proves welfare improving with respect to the situation of … complete financial markets. The corresponding welfare gains are equivalent to an average increase of 1.8% of permanent …
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a higher education subsidy cut reduces welfare and increases poverty in Vietnam. While rural and agricultural households …
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This paper develops a methodology to estimate the entire population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data. We do this through the estimation of the parameters of mixtures of distributions that allow for maximal parametric flexibility. The statistical approach we develop enables...
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policy, the government can improve social welfare by limiting the degree of pass-through of oil prices. We find, however …, that the welfare gain from pursuing such a policy is negligible. …
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We study the welfare effects of government-backed FDIs in Africa’s farmlands. We build an occupational choice model …
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Existing estimates of the welfare cost of business cycles suggest that it is quite low and might well be minuscule …-sharing is imperfect, the welfare costs computed with aggregate consumption data are likely underestimates. Yet, incomplete … that the welfare cost of macroeconomic volatility is in fact very substantial. In one half of the U.S. states, the welfare …
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large welfare costs of macroeconomic fluctuations in poor countries could be alleviated by a simple reallocation of aid …
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