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Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …
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clubs result in a redistribution of revenues from large market to small market clubs, which may lead to more intense on …
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.Hence, a given compression of after-tax incomes can be achievedat lower marginal tax rates. Optimal redistribution policy faces …
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The measurement of health disparities is a key component for the assessment of health systems. One aspect of these … integrates risk into the standard inequality measurement which measures the extent to which disparities in realized health are …
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's genetics. I investigate whether individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in … study highlights that individuals' redistribution preferences are affected by their beliefs about genetics' role in …
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This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) "principle of taxation" proves that any...
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We develop models of optimal linear and non-linear income taxation with endogenous human capital formation to explore optimal education subsidies. Optimal subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation and thus play an important role in alleviating the tax distortions on...
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