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FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2009

Should two-band income taxes be progressive given a general income distribution? We provide a negative answer under utilitarian and max-min welfare functions. While this result clarifies some ambiguities in the literature, it does not rule out progressive taxes in general. If we maximize total...

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Efficient redistribution: comparing basic income with unemployment benefits

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Jin, Jim Y. - 2010

We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple utility function, with both intensive and extensive margins, the unemployed are likely better off with pure BI than pure UB, regardless of labour supply elasticity and wage...

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Relative income, redistribution and well-being

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A. - 2010

In a model with heterogeneous workers and both intensive and extensive margins of employment, we consider two systems of redistribution: a universal basic income, and a categorical unemployment benefit. Well-being depends on own-consumption relative to average employed workers' consumption, and...

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Foundations of utilitarianism under risk and variable population

Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2021

Utilitarianism is the most prominent family of social welfare functions. We present three new axiomatic ….'s (1998) Expected Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism (ECLGU) is equivalent to a new axiom holding that it is better to … novel characterizations extend classic axiomatizations of utilitarianism from settings with either social risk or variable …

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A soul's view of the optimal population problem

De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - 2021

A long-standing challenge for welfare economics is to develop welfare criteria that can be applied to allocations with different population levels. Such a criterion is essential to resolve the optimal population problem, i.e., the tradeoff between population size and the welfare of each person...

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Utilitarianism is implied by social and individual dominance

Gustafsson, Johan; Spears, Dean; Zuber, Stéphane - 2023

utilitarianism, in the variable-population setting, arises from a new, weak form of individual stochastic dominance with two … avoids prominent egalitarian objections to utilitarianism by only applying if certain correlations are preserved. Our result …

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Expected Utility theory and the tyranny of catastrophic risks

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael - 2010

eventually has no impact at all when its probability goes to zero which is ethically not acceptable as well. -- Utilitarianism …

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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes

Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015

A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...

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Why variable-population social orderings cannot escape the repugnant conclusion : proofs and implications

Spears, Dean; Budolfson, Mark - 2019

The population literature in theoretical economics has long focused on attempts to avoid the repugnant conclusion. We advance the literature by proving that no social ordering in population economics can escape the repugnant conclusion in all instances. As we show, prior results depend on a...

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Correlation neglect in belief formation

Enke, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Florian - 2013

Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people neglect these correlations in the updating process and treat correlated information as independent. In...

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