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Equality of Opportunity, Heterogeneity and Poverty
Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005
explanation of intergenerational income correlation in Sweden. <p> Paper [II] focuses on the persistence of poverty in Sweden. The … purpose is to distinguish between two different reasons why poverty could persist on an individual level. By using a sample of … from true state dependence, where the experience of poverty leads to a higher risk of future poverty. The results, based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424018
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Tax Policy and Present-Biased Preferences: Paternalism under International Capital Mobility
Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011
This paper deals with tax-policy responses to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Earlier research on optimal paternalism typically abstracts from capital mobility. If capital is mobile between countries, it may no longer be possible for national governments to control domestic savings via capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818892
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Essays on Growth and Environment
Cialani, Catia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This thesis consists of a summary and four self-contained papers. <p> Paper [I] Following the 1987 report by The World Commission on Environment and Development, the genuine saving has come to play a key role in the context of sustainable development, and the World Bank regularly publishes numbers...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019144
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Heterogeneity or True State Dependence in Poverty - The tale told by twins
Nilsson, William - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005
This study focuses on the persistence of poverty in Sweden. The purpose is to distinguish between two different reasons … why poverty could persist on an individual level. By using a sample of identical twins, this study takes advantage of the … poverty leads to a higher risk of future poverty. The results, based on a four variate probit model, show the importance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005424028
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Social Identity, Education and Tax Policy
Aronsson, Thomas; Heidrich, Stefanie; Wikström, Magnus - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This paper analyzes the implications of social identity and self-categorization in the context of optimal redistributive income taxation. A two-type model is supplemented by an assumption that individuals select themselves into social categories, in which norms are formed and education effort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887093
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Positional Preferences for Housing: Income Taxation as a Second-Best Policy?
Aronsson, Thomas; Mannberg, Andrea - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
This paper analyzes whether marginal taxation of labor and capital income might be useful second best instruments for internalizing the externalities caused by conspicuous housing consumption, when the government is unable to implement a first best corrective tax on housing wealth. The rationale...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887095
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Essays on Agricultural and Environmental Policy
Jonsson, Thomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2007
This thesis consists of a summary and four papers. The first two papers address political economy and industrial organization aspects of agricultural policy, and the last two international aspects of environmental policy. Paper [1] explains Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) subsidies to farmers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207276
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Food Consumption, Paternalism and Economic Policy
Thunström, Linda - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008
The thesis consists of a summary and four papers, concerned with food consumption, behavior associated with overconsumption of food and analysis of the economic policy reforms designed to improve health. <p> Paper [I] estimates a hedonic price model on breakfast cereal, crisp bread and potato...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207278
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Decentralized Fiscal Federalism Revisited: Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods under Horizontal Leadership
Aronsson, Thomas; Persson, Lars - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2012
This paper concerns optimal taxation and public goods in an economic federation with decentralized leadership, where one lower level government is first mover also in the horizontal dimension. Under plausible assumptions, horizontal leadership reinforces the incentives created by decentralized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649727
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Adaptation, Anticipation-Bias and Optimal Income Taxation
Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2012
Adaptation is omnipresent but people systematically fail to correctly anticipate the degree to which they adapt. This leads individuals to make inefficient intertemporal decisions. This paper concerns optimal income taxation to correct for such anticipation-biases in a framework where consumers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550337