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Multidimensional Poverty with Missing Attributes
Acharya, Avidit Raj - 2014
for deciding whether or not that individual is living in poverty. If his profile of attributes falls below a certain … poverty frontier then the individual is considered poor. Consider the problem of a policy-implementer who can only observe k … < n of these attributes. The bureaucrat wishes to choose a poverty frontier only in those attributes that are observable …
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Multidimensional poverty with missing attributes
Acharya, Avidit; Roemer, John E. - In: Economics Letters 130 (2015) C, pp. 51-55
We show how to minimize the probability of misclassifying individuals as being poor or not poor when data on some of their relevant attributes are missing, but an estimate of the population distribution of attributes is available.
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Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Outcome in Analysing Optimal Income Taxation Empirical Evidence based on Italian Data
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Roemer, John E. - 2001
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework for analysing optimal income taxation. EOp optimal tax rules seek to equalise income differentials arising from factors beyond the control of the individual....
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Optimal Taxation According to Equality of Opportunity: a Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Roemer, John E. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2003
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework for analysing optimal income taxation. EOp optimal tax rules seek to equalise income differentials arising from factors beyond the control of the individual....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077220
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Dynamic Equality of Opportunity
Roemer, John E. - 2016
What are the long-term effects of policies intended to equalize opportunities among different social classes of children? To find out, we study the stationary states of an intergenerational model where adults are either White or Blue collar employees. Both adults and the state invest in their...
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Equality of Opportunity versus Equality of Outcome in Analysing Optimal Income Taxation Empirical Evidence based on Italian Data
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Roemer, John E. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2001
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework for analysing optimal income taxation. EOp optimal tax rules seek to equalise income differentials arising from factors beyond the control of the individual....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980819
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What We Owe Our Children, They Their Children,...
Roemer, John E.; Veneziani, Roberto - Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University - 2001
Egalitarian theorists, since Rawls, have in the main advocated equalizing some objective measure of individual well-being, such as primary goods, functioning, or resources, rather than subjective welfare. This discussion, however, has assumed, implicitly, a static environment. By analyzing a...
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Optimal Taxation According to Equality of Opportunity: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Roemer, John E. - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
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The political economy of income taxation under asymmetric information: The two-type case
Roemer, John E. - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 181-199
The apparent ubiquity of progressive taxation in advanced democracies has animated research by political economists in the past decade, but little progress has been made in modeling political equilibria over tax policy when labor supply is elastic with respect to taxation. Here, we postulate an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317106
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The political economy of income taxation under asymmetric information : the two-type case
Roemer, John E. - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012) 1/2, pp. 181-199
The apparent ubiquity of progressive taxation in advanced democracies has animated research by political economists in the past decade, but little progress has been made in modeling political equilibria over tax policy when labor supply is elastic with respect to taxation. Here, we postulate an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506419