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Kaplow, Louis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This article explores subjects in optimal income taxation characterized by recent research interest, practical … savings, savings policies, and labor supply; optimal income transfers; the relationship between optimal income taxation and … nonwelfarist objectives, welfare weights, heterogeneous preferences, and taxation of the family …

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Regulating Untaxable Externalities : Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?

Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James M.; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What is a feasible and efficient policy to regulate air pollution from vehicles? A Pigouvian tax is technologically infeasible. Most countries instead rely on exhaust standards that limit air pollution emissions per mile for new vehicles. We assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these...

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The Cost of Curbing Externalities with Market Power : Alcohol Regulations and Tax Alternatives

Conlon, Christopher; Rao, Nirupama L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Products with negative externalities are often subject to regulations that limit competition. The single-product case may suggest that it is irrelevant for aggregate welfare whether output is restricted via corrective taxes or limiting competition. However, when products are differentiated...

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Taxing Externalities : Revenue vs. Welfare Gains with an Application to U.S. Carbon Taxes

Kotchen, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

analyses of externality correcting taxes. That this comparison might matter is somewhat of a "blind spot" in most economic … advocating for externality correcting taxes …

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Is Broader Always Better? Preexisting Distortions, Emissions Elasticities, and the Scope of Emissions Pricing

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Hafstead, Marc A. C.; Williams, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Economists often regard broad-based carbon pricing (whether in the form of a carbon tax or cap and trade) as the most efficient policy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Relative to a narrower policy that exempts some emissions sources, a broader policy is often favored because it can exploit...

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Bargaining over Taxes and Entitlements in the Era of Unequal Growth

Azzimonti, Marina; Karpuska, Laura; Mihalache, Gabriel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Entitlement programs have become an increasing component of total government spending in the US over the last six decades. To some observers, this growth of the welfare state is excessive and unwarranted. To others, it is a welcome counter-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality....

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Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions Engel Curve Dynamics

Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

economy implications of the ongoing decarbonization of the private vehicle fleet. Based on voting data from California, we …

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The Shadow Price of Capital : Accounting for Capital Displacement in Cost Benefit Analysis

Newell, Richard G.; Pizer, William A.; Prest, Brian C. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Government analysts have long used discount rates based on investment rates of return to approximate the effect of capital displacement. However, we show how this approach is not well grounded in economic theory and produces highly biased results, particularly in the context of decisions...

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The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education : Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers

García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; Bennhoff, Frederik H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest follow-up of any randomized early childhood education program. Annual observations of participant...

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The Benefits and Costs of U.S. Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates

Ferranna, Maddalena; Robinson, Lisa A.; Cadarette, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In 2021, the Biden Administration issued mandates requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for U.S. federal employees and contractors and for some healthcare and private sector workers. Although these mandates have been subject to legal challenges and some have been halted or delayed, rigorous appraisal...

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