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Optimal Lockdown and Social Welfare
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2021
This paper reexamines the design of the optimal lockdown strategy by paying attention to its robustness to the postulated social welfare criterion. We first characterize optimal lockdown under utilitarianism, and we show that this social criterion can, under some conditions, imply a COVID19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314954
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[Rezension von: Atkinson, A. B., The economic consequences of rolling back the welfare state]
Barr, Nicholas A. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 110 (2000), pp. F739-740
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001540909
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Welfare Losses of Road Congestion
Russo, Antonio - 2019
We estimate the marginal external congestion cost of motor-vehicle travel for Rome, Italy, using a methodology that accounts for hypercongestion (a situation where congestion decreases a road’s throughput). We show that the external cost – even when roads are not hypercongested...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867018
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Nonparametric Welfare Analysis for Discrete Choice : Levels and Differences of Individual and Social Welfare
Capéau, Bart; Maes, Sebastiaan; Sadeleer, Liebrecht De; … - 2021
Empirical welfare analyses often impose stringent parametric assumptions on individuals’ preferences and neglect unobserved preference heterogeneity. In this paper, we develop a framework to conduct individual and social welfare analysis for discrete choice that does not suffer from these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228344
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Replicator Evolution of Welfare Stigma : Welfare Fraud vs. Incomplete Take-Up
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Kurita, Kenichi - 2021
There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits. This study investigates both of these opposing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315183
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Leaky Bucket in the Real World : Estimating Inequality Aversion Using Survey Data
Pirttila, Jukka; Uusitalo, Roope - 2021
Existing evidence of inequality aversion relies on data from class-room experiments where subjects face hypothetical questions. This paper estimates the magnitude of inequality aversion using representative survey data, with questions related to the real-economy situations the respondents face....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317002
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[Rezension von: Ng, Yew-kwang, Social welfare and economic policy]
Witztum, Amos - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 102 (1992) 410, pp. 171-173
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001345027
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One Nation, One Language? Domestic Language Diversity, Trade and Welfare
Gurevich, Tamara; Herman, Peter; Toubal, Farid; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
of estimated ‘home bias’, demonstrating the importance of shared languages for domestic integration. To highlight the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249655
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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908729
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Choosing size of government under ambiguity : infrastructure spending and income taxation
Manski, Charles F. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 124 (2014) 576, pp. 359-376
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383761