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The Triumph and Denouement of the British Fiscal State: Taxation For the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

At the start of the long wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, the taxes available to the British state fell mainly on outlays made by its citizens, upon domestically produced commodities and services. Smaller proportions came from import duties and direct taxes upon their incomes...

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Regional GDP in Britain, 1871-1911: Some Estimates

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The paper builds on a method proposed by Geary and Stark (2002) for estimating regional incomes in Victorian Britain. This is modified by using tax data to allocate non-wage income across regions. The results suggest that the coefficient of variation of regional GDP per head was rising rapidly...

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Redistributive Taxation, Public Expenditures, and the Size of Government

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Esteban, Joan - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2009

We introduce a model of redistributive income taxation and public expenditure. Thisjoint treatment permits analyzing … that partisanconfrontation essentially falls on expenditure policies rather than on income taxation.We examine the case in … which the expenditure policy (or the size of government) ischosen by majority voting and income taxation is consistently …

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Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Taxation

Weinzierl, Matthew; Golosov, Michail Ju.; Tsyvinsky, Aleh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justification forcapital income taxation: goods preferred by … taxation, allowing us to studythe forces for and against regressivity. We then parameterize the model toevidence on the … only a fraction of theprevailing level of capital income taxation.[...] …

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Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal CapitalIncome Taxation

Golosov, Michail Ju.; Tsyvinsky, Aleh; Weinzierl, Matthew - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

We analytically and quantitatively examine a prominent justication for capital income taxation: goodspreferred by … commodity taxation, allowing us tostudy the forces for and against regressivity. We then parameterize the model to evidence on … justify only a fraction of the prevailing level of capital income taxation.[...] …

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Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presenceof Income Taxation

Kaplow, Louis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

labor income taxation. Additional literature is motivated bythe possibility that distributive concerns should amend the …

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Do Child Tax Benefits Affect the Wellbeing ofChildren? Evidence from Canadian Child BenefitExpansions

Milligan, Kevin; Stabile, Mark - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

A vast literature has examined the impact of family income on the health anddevelopment outcomes of children. One channel through which increasedincome may operate is an improvement in a family’s ability to provide food,shelter, clothing, books, and other expenditure-related inputs to a...

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Tibor Barna: The redistributive impact of taxes and socialpolicies in the UK: 1937-2005

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

Regular annual studies made by the Office of National Statistics in the UK areintended to show how far taxing household incomes and giving benefits in cash andkind to households redistributes income from rich to poor. The first attempt to do thisin the UK was made by Tibor Barna for the year...

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Work-Life Balance in a Low-Income Neighbourhood

Dean, Hartley; Coulter, Alice - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

‘Work-life balance’ generally refers to how people may combine paid employmentwith family responsibilities. The UK government’s attempts to promote work-lifebalance are connected to wider concerns to maximise labour-force participation andinclude policies on tax credits, child care and...

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