This paper examines the efficiency gains from linking marginal Social Security benefits to marginal Social Security … effective marginal federal government taxation of labor supply would average roughly 38 percent. Since the efficiency costs of … dead weight loss of labor income taxation.The findings of this paper suggest that there may be very significant efficiency …

, privatization reduces efficiency by about $5,600 per future household despite improved labor supply incentives … matching actually harms efficiency. However, increasing the progressivity of the remaining traditional system is very effective … at restoring risk sharing, thereby allowing partial privatization to produce efficiency gains of $2,700 per future …

This paper describes an efficiency approach to the evaluation of policy changes. Rather than comparing the utility …

instruments. In a simple model with identical consumers, we show conditions under which the same efficiency can be attained by the … efficiency can again be obtained, but only if each person's gasoline tax rate can be made to depend on the characteristics of the …

literature has been prominent in legislative debates about taxation as a tool to discourage smoking, and has contributed theory … research and several equity and efficiency concerns accompanying cigarette taxation debates. It includes economic analysis of …