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The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board administers the purchase and sale of wine and spirits and is mandated to charge a uniform 30% markup on all products. We use an estimated discrete choice model of demand for spirits, together with information on wholesale prices, to assess the implications...
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to advance both efficiency and equity. Returns to educational investments tend to decrease over the life cycle. Moreover … life cycle. This creates complementarities between efficiency and equity at early stages and trade-offs at late stages. The … paper goes on to discuss specific policies for efficiency and equity at each educational stage, ranging from early childhood …
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Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of 'experts' in different ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under consideration. This paper introduces a new method,...
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workers have fairness preferences and hence provide full effort only if their factor return is sufficiently high. With the …
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While little agreement exists regarding the taxation of bequests in general, there is a widely held view that accidental bequests should be subject to a confiscatory tax. We propose to reexamine the optimal taxation of accidental bequests in an economy where individuals care about what they...
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negative. The experimental results indicate that the mechanism is conducive to efficiency, despite the multiplicity of …
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An important element for the public support of policies is their perceived justice. At the same time most policy … their own risk preferences. The observed allocations are consistent with four different views of justice under uncertainty …
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Empirical evaluation of policies to mitigate climate change has been largely confined to the application of discounted utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for climate policies, where the discounting of...
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utilitarian justice concept appended with a safety net for the poorest. Another result is that people are willing to accept income … example, do they argue for or against mandatory participation? Should we have less redistribution and more actuarial fairness …
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assume a social welfare function and hence a particular attitude towards equity and justice. We show that previous approaches …
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