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Optimal control of externalities in the presence of income taxation

Kaplow, Louis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

AA substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexisting distortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...

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Distributional orderings: an approach with seven flavours

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Gaertner, Wulf - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional …

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Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments

Ranger, Nicola; Niehörster, Falk - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Current projections of long-term trends in Atlantic hurricane activity due to climate change are deeply uncertain, both in magnitude and sign. This creates challenges for adaptation planning in exposed coastal communities. We present a framework to support the interpretation of current long-term...

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Trade-offs between carbon sequestration and poverty alleviation: preliminary evidence from the N'Hambita Community Carbon Project in Mozambique

Palmer, Charles; Silber, Tilmann - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper assesses trade-offs between carbon sequestration and farmers’ incomes from land-use systems implemented in a community-based project, in Mozambique. Systems either focus on carbon sequestration or combine sequestration with cash crop cultivation. The latter provide carbon payments...

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Sex in older age in rural Malawi

Freeman, Emily; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Africa. …

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Living with HIV post-diagnosis: a qualitative study of the experiences of Nairobi slum residents

Wekesa, Eliud; Coast, Ernestina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Objectives: To characterise the experiences of heterosexual men and women living with HIV post-diagnosis and explain these experiences in relation to their identity and sexuality. Design: Qualitative study using in-depth interviews and theoretically informed biographic disruption theory....

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Welfare reforms and child well-being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

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Child farm labour: theory and evidence

Bhalotra, Sonia; Heady, Chris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper presents a dynamic model of child labour supply in a farming household. The model clarifies the roles of land, income and household size, allowing labour and credit market imperfections. If labour markets are imperfect, child labour is increasing in farm size and decreasing in...

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Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Litchfield, Julie A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears …

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A note on the estimation of intergenerational income correlations by the method of averaging

Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...

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