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OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure

Lechene, Valérie; Pendakur, Krishna; Wolf, Alex - 2021

to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

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Time-Consistent Fiscal Policy Under Heterogeneity : Conflicting or Common Interests

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos - 2011

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of Markov-perfect tax-spending policy in a neoclassical growth model with capitalists and workers. Focusing on the long run, our main findings are: (i) it is optimal for a benevolent government, which cares equally about its...

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Redistribution and Insurance with Simple Tax Instruments

Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015

We analyze optimal taxation of labor and capital income in a life-cycle framework with idiosyncratic income risk. We provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is independent of the social welfare function and...

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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently When Qualified Labour is Mobile

Richter, Wolfram F.; Kunze, Lars - 2021

The paper studies the effect that skilled labour mobility has on efficient education policy. The model is one of two periods in which a representative taxpayer decides on labour, education, and saving. The government can only use linear tax and subsidy instruments. It is shown that the mobility...

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Pareto-Improving Bequest Taxation

Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - 2021

Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show that in the presence of wage taxation, a small bequest tax may improve efficiency in an overlapping-generations framework with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of...

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Poverty and intra-household resource allocation in Surinamese households

Khadan, Jeetendra; Strobl, Eric; Tuffour, Theophiline - 2020

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …

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A multidimensional approach to measuring economic insecurity : the case of Chile

Prieto, Joaquin - 2021

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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A Comparison of Optimal Tax Policies When Compensation or Responsibility Matter

Jacquet, Laurence - 2010

This paper examines optimal redistribution in a model with high- and low-skilled individuals with heterogeneous tastes for labor. We compare the extent to which optimal policies based on different normative criteria obey the principles of compensation (for differential skills) and responsibility...

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A Behaviour-Based Approach to the Estimation of Poverty in India

Almås, Ingvild - 2013

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … consumption survey data. We propose an alternative approach that identifies poverty from consumer behaviour, based on the notion … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …

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