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Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—and on the period up...

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Can Online Delivery Increase Acces to Education?

Goodman, Joshua S.; Melkers, Julia; Pallais, Amanda - 2017

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research … online education affects the number of people pursuing formal education. We study the Georgia Institute of Technology …’s Online M.S. in Computer Science, the earliest model to combine the inexpensive nature of online education with a highly …

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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems

Fredriksson, Per G.; Matschke, Xenia - 2014

The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...

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Should Income Inequality be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...

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Optimal Redistributive Wealth Taxation When Wealth Is More Than Just Capital

Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2020

We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find very different welfare implications of land rent-, bequest- and capital taxation. It is mainly land rents that should be taxed. We develop an overlapping generations model with...

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Optimal Lockdown and Social Welfare

Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2020

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 COVID-19...

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Tax Competition with Two Tax Instruments - and Tax Evasion

Becker, Johannes; Wilson, John D. - 2021

We consider a world in which countries apply optimal taxes on mobile capital and savings (like in Bucovetsky and Wilson, 1991). Firms and savers may underreport income in order to avoid or evade taxation. We show that, even in the presence of underreporting, the equilibrium under tax competition...

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Horizontal Merger under Strategic Tax Policy

Liu, Chih-Chen; Mukherjee, Arijit; Wang, Leonard F.S. - 2014

We show that the presence of a strategic tax policy increases the incentive for a horizontal merger compared to the situation with no tax policy. Thus, we point towards a new factor, viz., strategic tax policy, for increasing the incentive for a horizontal merger that has been ignored in the...

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The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare

Danziger, Eliav; Danziger, Leif - 2018

This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal income taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal graduated minimum wage increases social welfare by increasing the low-productivity workers’...

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Free Neighborhood Choice Boosts Socially Optimal Outcomes in Stag-Hunt Coordination Problem

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2021

Situations where independent agents need to align their activities to achieve individually and socially beneﬁcial outcomes are abundant, reaching from everyday situations like ﬁxing a time for a meeting to global problems like climate change agreements. Often such situations can be described...

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