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I derive a social planner's optimal information design in an environment with quasi-hyperbolic discounting consumers without commitment. Consumption induces instantaneous utility, but unknown delayed cost. Consumers may or may not acquire additional costless information on the cost parameter....
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the Brazilian case, what could explain the tenacity of inequality in the country? To answer this, the paper, grounded in … new institutionalism theory, employed a process-tracing method to explore the causes of the continuity of unequal income …
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In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …
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expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …
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general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …
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A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...
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We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a …
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Constructing measures of post-tax income inequality that are consistent with national accounts requires the allocation …
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A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfarist social welfare function with weights decreasing with income. However, high transfer withdrawal rates in many countries imply very low weights for the working poor in practice. We reconcile...
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proved to be enough to shed light on the length and timing before high inequality implies regime change. Thus, this work may …
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