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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich : means testing or higher tax?

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray; Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, … - 2020

Transferring public benefits to people in no need of them appears to be a waste of public money. Thus, there seems to be support for a move away from universal child benefits and towards means testing. This study presents a critique of this overly-simplistic view and proposes a very simple...

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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...

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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling

Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011

affect child schooling by focusing on young school-age children who are otherwise not active in the labor market. Using micro … percentage points higher schooling probability for children between the ages of 7 and 10. This result explains approximately 26 … percent of the improvement in schooling for this age group between the years 1988 and 2000. -- household bargaining …

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