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Flood, Lennart; Klevmarken, Anders; Mitrut, Andreea - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2006

system. If the relative income of older pensioner’s drops and at the same time expenditures for health and care increase, one …

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Using stated preference methods to evaluate the impact of water on health: the case of metropolitan Cairo

Abou-Ali, Hala - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

This paper analysis the impact of better water quality on health improvements using two stated preference methods … rather small willingness to pay for reducing health risks owing to water quality. <p> …

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Evaluating the welfare effects of improved water quality using the choice experiment method

Abou-Ali, Hala; Carlsson, Fredrik - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

This paper analyzes the welfare effects of improved health status through increased water quality using a choice … estimating individual level willingness to pay(WTP). We find a significant WTP for improved health status, both for short-run and … long-run health effects. However, the estimated WTP is fairly low compared with the costs of a program that would achieve …

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Maximum fee vs child benefit: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform

Brink, Anna; Nordblom, Katarina; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and their economic well-being. We estimate labor...

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Loss evasion and tax aversion

Engström, Per; Nordblom, Katarina; Ohlsson, Henry; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

The objective of this paper is to study if taxpayers behave in a loss averse manner when filing their tax returns. This is important for tax design but also for understanding human behavior in general. The predictions of prospect theory can be contrasted to those of expected utility theory. We...

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A Microsimulation Approach to an Optimal Swedish Income Tax

Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper follows the theory of optimal taxation and the goal is to identify a tax/benefit design that maximizes social welfare. A two stage process is proposed where the individuals preferred choice of leisure and consumption is solved in the first stage, and the second stage identifies the...

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Why do you want lower taxes? Preferences regarding municipal income tax rates

Jakobsson, Niklas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

The factors shaping people’s preferences for municipal labour income tax rates in Sweden were assessed, using survey data. The tax rate actually faced by the respondents had explanatory power for their attitudes towards the tax rate only when a few socio-demographic explanatory variables were...

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SWEtaxben: A Swedish Tax/benefit Micro Simulation Model and an Evaluation of a Swedish Tax Reform.

Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

The purpose of SWEtaxben is to evaluate the impact of changes in the tax/benefit systems on households as well as the central governmental budget. Relating to the micro simulation literature this model can be labeled a static micro simulation model with behavioral changes. This behavioral change...

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Taxes, Wages and Working Hours

Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

This paper presents estimates of individuals’ responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant but relatively small net-of-tax rate elasticities. The results vary with...

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Adult Mortality, AIDS and Fertility in Rural Malawi

Durevall, Dick; Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

Malawi, using data from Malawi 2004 Demographic and Health Survey and population censuses. Since AIDS was the dominating …

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