Welfare states contribute to people's well-being in many different ways. Bringing all these contributions under a …, Germany, France, and Sweden) that represent the principal types of welfare and gender regimes, we propose ways of …, transfers, and childcare subsidies in these five countries. In so doing, we calibrate the contributions of the different welfare …

We measure the welfare consequences of endogenous quality choice in imperfectly competitive markets. We introduce the … concept of a "quality markup" and measure the relative welfare consequences of market power over price and quality. For U … marginal costs, but qualities are also 23% to 55% higher than socially optimal and the welfare costs of each are similar in …

on trade volumes and patterns, and a non-negligible welfare impact. In the counterfactual scenario in which each country … the data. In this counterfactual scenario, welfare is also 1.6% higher for the median country compared to the baseline …. The welfare impact varies greatly across countries, ranging from ..1.1% to +4.3% among OECD countries, and from ..4.6% to …

amount of land owned by females (b) cultivation of high value crops increases household welfare. The policy implication is … welfare when appropriate complementary resources and institutions are absent. …