show that the progressive labor tax can partially substitute for the redistribution in social security, thus reducing the …

the system of financial support for families with children. We focus on: 1) the trade-off between redistribution of income …

transfers do not decline, indicating no loss in redistribution. Our estimates imply a 9-14% social tax rate. The welfare … benefits of informal redistribution may come at a cost, depressing labor supply and productivity. …

The vast majority of the empirical literature on crime has focused on the effects of "supply-side" shocks such as the …. Consistent with the model's predictions (and inconsistent with alternative explanations), we find a 3% decline in crime in DC … during the shutdown period, with the net effect resulting from a 9% decline during the day hours, and a 5% increase in crime …

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on …. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR can be assigned to increasing instances of crime against women. We … argue that an increase in crime against women, increases the non-pecuniary costs of traveling to work, particularly in a …

margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same data, inequality aversion is measured as the degree of redistribution …. -- social preferences ; redistribution ; optimal income taxation ; labor supply …