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Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina during the 2000s: The Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161649
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Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes. In both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161650
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru: A Synthesis of Results
Lustig, Nora; Molina, George Gray; Higgins, Sean; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161651
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview
Lustig, Nora; Amabile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … at government costs, they reduce inequality in all countries by considerably more than cash transfers, reflecting their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161655
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Did China's Tax-for-Fee Reform Improve Farmers' Welfare in Rural Areas?
Alm, James; Liu, Yongzheng - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
China enacted a rural tax reform – the "Tax-for-Fee Reform" (TFR) – in the late 1990s. A crucial but unanswered question is whether this reform improved farmers' welfare in rural areas. This paper uses village-level survey data from the Chinese Household Income Project in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161656
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Social Spending and Income Redistribution in Argentina During the 2000s: the Rising Role of Noncontributory Pensions
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161657
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The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An Overview
Lustig, Nora; Pessino, Carola; Scott, John - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial amounts in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, less … poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. In-kind transfers in education and health reduce inequality in all countries by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161658
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Deconstructing the Decline in Inequality in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 14 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860704
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China's Tax-for-Fee Reform and Village Inequality
Alm, James; Liu, Yongzheng - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2013
impact of the TFR on inequality in rural villages in China. Our results suggest an effective role of the TFR in reducing … inequality within villages. Its impact on a consumption-based measure of inequality took effect immediately; its impact on per … capita household income inequality took somewhat longer. Our results also suggest that it is "rich" and/or "coastal" villages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860706
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Commitment to Equity Assessment (CEQ): Estimating the Incidence of Social Spending, Subsidies and Taxes Handbook
Lustig, Nora; Higgins, Sean - Department of Economics, Tulane University - 2012
This handbook presents a step-by-step guide to applying the incidence analysis used in the multi-country project CEQ. We define the pre- and post-net transfers income concepts, discuss the methodological assumptions used to construct them, explain how taxes, subsidies and transfers should be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904621