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OLS estimation of the intra-household distribution of expenditure

Lechene, Valérie; Pendakur, Krishna; Wolf, Alex - 2021

to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject … equal sharing, and find large gender gaps in resource shares, and consequently in poverty rates, in some countries. …

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Equity-regarding poverty measures : differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales

Ebert, Udo - 2008 - rev.

The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …

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Optimal labor income taxation : the role of the skill distribution

Miao, Dingquan - 2022

I analyze the role of the distribution of skills in shaping optimal nonlinear income tax schedules. I use theoretical skill distributions as well as empirical skill distributions for 14 OECD countries. I find that a more dispersed log-normal skill distribution implies a more progressive optimal...

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Poverty and intra-household resource allocation in Surinamese households

Khadan, Jeetendra; Strobl, Eric; Tuffour, Theophiline - 2020

This paper examines the allocation of resources of poverty rates within households in Suriname. To this end we employ a …

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A multidimensional approach to measuring economic insecurity : the case of Chile

Prieto, Joaquin - 2021

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A net welfare benefit approach to optimal taxation

Sepúlveda, Cristián - 2018

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Second-best optimal taxation of oil and capital in a small open economy

Petrucci, Alberto R. - 2010

This paper analyzes the efficient taxation of oil and capital income in an oil-dependent infinite-lived economy facing perfect capital mobility. Two cases are examined: one with product market imperfections and free tax choice, one with perfect competition and tax restrictions. The optimal tax...

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Why finance ministers favor carbon taxes, even if they do not take climate change into account

Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - 2015

Fiscal considerations may shift governmental priorities away from environmental concerns: Finance ministers face strong demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition. We develop a multi-region model of tax competition...

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Normative fiscal policy and growth : some quantitative implications for the Chilean economy

Espino, Emilio; González Rozada, Martín - 2013

This paper explores the qualitative and quantitative implications of optimal taxation in a developing economy when economic growth is endogenously determined. We differentiate this class of economies from a developed economy in two aspects: informal sector is quantitatively significant and...

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Optimal sin taxation and market power

O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2021

This paper studies the design of sin taxes when ﬁrms exercise market power. We outline an optimal tax framework that highlights how market power impacts the eﬃciency and redistributive properties of sin taxation, and quantify these eﬀects in an application to sugar-sweetened beverage...

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