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Pareto-improving bequest taxation
Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show … with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children's education. This result holds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261311
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Subsidizing Health-Conscious Behavior Now or Later
Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila; Schwager, Robert - 2016
In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health …-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431271
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Do Health Insurance Mandates Spillover to Education? Evidence from Michigan's Autism Insurance Mandate
Acton, Riley K. - 2019
public goods. We examine how health insurance coverage affects the education of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD … little change in ASD identification, the mandate crowds-out special education supports for students with ASD by shifting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861424
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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country: An optimal taxation problem with moral hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270527
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Can a Ban on Child Labour Be Self-Enforcing, and Would It Be Efficient?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2024
may be self-enforcing also in a more general model where education is an alternative to work, and the disutility of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534362
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The Optimal Design of Assisted Reproductive Technologies Policies
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2022
This paper studies the optimal design of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) policies in an economy where individuals differ in their reproductive capacity (or fecundity) and in their wage. We find that the optimal ART policy varies with the postulated social welfare criterion....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353415
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Evaluating Marginal Internalities: A New Approach
Kalamov, Zarko - 2021
consumption. It models a biased consumer who faces uncertain health harms and receives mandatory health insurance. I show that the … marginal internality can be identified by observing how sin good demand reacts to changes in health insurance coverage. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799776
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Long Term Care Partnerships: Are they 'Fit for Purpose'?
Bergquist, Savannah; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Swartz, Katherine - 2015
The risk of high costs of long-term care services and supports (LTSS) is one of the largest uninsured risks for American families and a major challenge to the sustainability of Medicaid. To address the latter, the long-term care partnership (LTCP) program was an initiative designed to encourage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480892
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Evaluating Marginal Internalities : A New Approach
Kalamov, Zarko - 2021
consumption. It models a biased consumer who faces uncertain health harms and receives mandatory health insurance. I show that the … marginal internality can be identified by observing how sin good demand reacts to changes in health insurance coverage. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310770
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Competition and quality in regulated markets with sluggish demand
Brekke, Kurt R.; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2010
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266064