individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary indirect taxation can circumvent the agency problem of … the household. Essentially, taxation should discourage less the consumption of a certain group of goods: those for which …

representative household microdata from 11 Eurozone countries to simulate these policy reforms and to study their effects on the …

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 …

We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can …

We compare two systems of income redistribution: unemployment benefits (UB) and basic income (BI). First, for a simple …

This paper studies the effects of different income transfers on individual welfare, in both marriage and divorce … level of welfare is deduced by way of a Nash bargaining solution. We show that inter-generational transfers may produce …

I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … favor lower (higher) levels of redistribution …

wage differences, variation in prices of bought-in inputs into household production in the form of child care, and domestic … productivity differences as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second earner labour supply. The analysis highlights … specification of household time use widens the set of cases in which individual taxation is welfare-superior to joint taxation …