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Redistribution and insurance with simple tax instruments
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
provide a novel decomposition of labor income tax formulas into a redistribution and an insurance component. The latter is … capital tax is non-zero and trades off redistribution and insurance against savings distortions. Our quantitative results … bound on optimal taxes: even for welfare functions that do not value redistribution, marginal tax rates are positive for all …
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The social cost of carbon emissions : seven propositions
Foley, Duncan K.; Rezai, Armon; Taylor, Lance - In: Economics letters 121 (2013) 1, pp. 90-97
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Dissecting inequality-averse preferences
Bergolo, Marcelo; Burdín, Gabriel; Burone, Santiago; … - 2021
Although different approaches and methods have been used to measure inequality aversion, there remains no consensus about its drivers at the individual level. We conducted an experiment on a sample of more than 1800 first-year undergraduate economics and business students in Uruguay to...
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Redistribution and insurance in welfare states around the world
Bartels, Charlotte; Neumann, Dirk - 2020
Redistribution across individuals in a one-year-period framework is an empirically intensely studied question. However …, a substantial share of annual redistribution might turn out to serve individual insurance in a longer perspective …, reducing the level of actual redistribution across individuals. This paper investigates to what extent long-run redistribution …
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Robustness of a simple rule for the social cost of carbon
Rezai, Armon; Ploeg, Frederick van der - In: Economics letters 132 (2015), pp. 48-55
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The costs of missing the millennium development goal on gender equity
Abu-Ghaida, Dina (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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The impact of air pollution on attributable risks and economic costs of hospitalization for mental disorders
Wu, Ziting; Chen, Xi; Li, Guoxing; Lin, Tian; Wang, Zhan; … - 2020
This study aims to fill the gap in our understanding about exposure to particulate matters with diameter less than 2.5 µm (PM2.5) and attributable risks and economic costs of mental disorders (MDs). We identify the relationship between PM2.5 and risk of hospital admissions (HAs) for MDs in...
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The role of insurance in international shipping costs
Wolanski, Adrian - In: Economics letters 155 (2017), pp. 116-120
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The true cost of war
Artuc, Erhan; Gomez-Parra, Nicolas; Onder, Harun - 2023
Measuring the economic impact of a war is a daunting task. Common indicators like casualties, infrastructure damages, and gross domestic product effects provide useful benchmarks, but they fail to capture the complex welfare effects of wars. This paper proposes a new method to estimate the...
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Why praise inequality? : public good provision, income distribution and social welfare
Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009
redistribution from the rich to the poor will improve social welfare, regardless of how small inequality is in the status quo …
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