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Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968–2009
Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968–2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...
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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off?
Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper, we address the question whether family support via the income tax system is more generous in France than … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …
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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments
Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper we use a Finnish panel spanning 22 years to predict the mean, the variance and the skew of the present value of lifetime income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime...
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Books Are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income
Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...
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Exploitation, Altruism, and Social Welfare: An Economic Exploration
Doepke, Matthias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Child labor is often condemned as a form of exploitation. I explore how the notion of exploitation, as used in everyday language, can be made precise in economic models of child labor. Exploitation is defined relative to a specific social welfare function. I first show that under the standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668527
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Measuring the Willingness to Pay to Avoid Guilt: Estimation Using Equilibrium and Stated Belief Models
Bellemare, Charles; Sebald, Alexander; Strobel, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We estimate structural models of guilt aversion to measure the population level of willingness to pay (WTP) to avoid feeling guilt by letting down another player. We compare estimates of WTP under the assumption that higher-order beliefs are in equilibrium (i.e. consistent with the choice...
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Altruism, Fertility, and the Value of Children: Health Policy Evaluation and Intergenerational Welfare
Birchenall, Javier A.; Soares, Rodrigo R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper accounts for the value of children and future generations in the evaluation of health policies. This is achieved through the incorporation of altruism and fertility in a "value of life" type of framework. We are able to express adults’ willingness to pay for changes in child...
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Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Viscusi, W. Kip; Ziliak, James P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric estimates that in the important case of workers' decisions concerning exposure to fatal injury risk...
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Unwillingness to Pay for Privacy: A Field Experiment
Beresford, Alastair R.; Kübler, Dorothea; Preibusch, Sören - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We measure willingness to pay for privacy in a field experiment. Participants were given the choice to buy a maximum of one DVD from one of two online stores. One store consistently required more sensitive personal data than the other, but otherwise the stores were identical. In one treatment,...
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The Rate of Return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Moon, Seong Hyeok; Pinto, Rodrigo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper estimates the rate of return to the High/Scope Perry Preschool Program, an early intervention program targeted toward disadvantaged African-American youth. Estimates of the rate of return to the Perry program are widely cited to support the claim of substantial economic benefits from...
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