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Progressivity, Redistribution and Equity, with Application to the British Tax and Benefit System
DUCLOS, Jean-Yves - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1994
We propose a general class of indices of horizontal inequity that complements existing classes of progressivity and vertical equity indices. The class of horizontal inequity indices can also correct for biases in measuring a general class of inequality measures. We illustrate our results using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510365
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Rural Policies, Price Change and Poverty in Tanzania: an Agricultural Household Model-Based Assessment
Tiberti, Luca; Tiberti, Marco - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2012
Exogenous shocks to farmers’ consumption, production and labour market decisions are rarely considered accurately. For … consumption and production can bias the final impact on household welfare. The main objective of this study is thus to develop a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123763
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Equity and Policy Effectiveness with Imperfect Targeting
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
We propose a general cost-of-inequality approach that jointly integrates horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the assessment of poverty alleviation programs, with the strength of each criterion being captured through its own inequity-aversion parameter. This contrasts with the assessment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696270
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Decomposing Poverty Changes into Vertical and Horizontal Components
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
Variations in aggregate poverty indices can be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the welfare distances between those poor of initially unequal welfare status, and/or to emerging disparities in welfare among those poor of initially similar welfare status. This note...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510350
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Poverty-Decreasing Indirect Tax Reforms: Evidence from Tunisia
Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
This paper suggests a methodology to identify socially-desirable directions for poverty-alleviating tax reforms. The cost-benefit ratio of increasing any commodity-tax rate is derived from the minimization of a poverty measure subject to a revenue requirement for the government. Further, to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670286
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On the Impact of Better Targeted Transfers on Poverty in Tunisia
Bibi, Sami - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2002
This paper describes the effects of general food subsidies on poverty in Tunisia, as revealed by household survey data for 1990. The analysis indicates that the poorest certainly take advantage of this system, but at the price of considerable leakages to non-poor people and at a sizeable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670298
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Dynamic linear economies with social interactions
ÖZGÜR, Onur; BISIN, Alberto - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2011
Social interactions arguably provide a rationale for several important phenomena, from smoking and other risky behavior in teens to e.g., peer effects in school performance. We study social interactions in dynamic economies. For these economies, we provide existence (Markov Perfect Equilibrium...
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Peer Effects, Fast Food Consumption and Adolescent Weight Gain
Fortin, Bernard; Yazbeck, Myra - Chaire de recherche Industrielle Alliance sur les … - 2015
interaction model of fast food consumption. To estimate this equation we use a quasi maximum likelihood approach that allows us to … consumption and his lagged zBMI, and allowing for irregular intervals in the data. Results show that there are positive but small … peer effects in fast food consumption among adolescents belonging to a same friendship school network. Based on our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272149
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Legal versus Normative Incentives under Judicial Error
Deffains, Bruno; Fluet, Claude - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007
We analyze the complementarity between legal incentives (the threat of being held liable for damages) and normative incentives (the fear of social disapproval or stigma) in situations where instances of misbehavior are not perfectly observable. There may be multiple equilibria within a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015241
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Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; Villeval, Marie-Claire - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2004
The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In Manski's (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e., endogenous interactions), fairness effects (i.e., exogenous interactions) and sorting effects (i.e., correlated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696333