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Fiscal incidence when both individual welfare and family structure matter: The case of subsidization of home-care for the elderly
Mou, Haizhen; Winer, Stanley L. - 2012
the structure of the family including the altruism of children affect incidence indexes? How should fiscal shifting of the … subsidy for home care paid to the parents be defined, in budgetary or in welfare terms, and what does simulation tell us about … the distribution of benefits between the generations? We address these issues analytically and with simulation (using data …
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Capital Income Taxation and Household Production
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2015
The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem and its extensions have been interpreted as implying that capital income should not be taxed. If, as seems reasonable on empirical grounds, we introduce production of household goods with close market substitutes, this conclusion no longer holds. We analyse optimal...
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On the Regressivity of Gambling Taxes in Switzerland
Kohler, Dimitri - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 152 (2016) 3, pp. 193-208
In this study, the author assesses whether the gambling tax in Switzerland is regressive using a large, representative sample of the population and the reported gambling expenditures of the Swiss Health Survey 2007 (SHS 07). To analyze the tax incidence, the Suits index was constructed. This...
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The role of livestock portfolios and group-based approaches for building resilience in the face of accelerating climate change: An asset-based panel data analysis from rural Kenya
Ngigi, Marther W.; Mueller, Ulrike; Birner, Regina - 2015
This study examines the impact of multiple shocks on assets by employing two waves of a panel data set of 360 rural households in three agro-ecological zones in Kenya. To control for unobserved heterogeneity, a "within" household fixed effects model was employed. One major finding is that...
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Impact of different irrigation systems on water quality in peri-urban areas of Gujarat, India
Vangani, Ruchi; Saxena, Deepak; Gerber, Nikolaus; … - 2016
The ever-growing population of India, along with the increasing competition for water for productive uses in different sectors - especially irrigated agriculture and related local water systems and drainage - poses a challenge in an effort to improve water quality and sanitation. In rural and...
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Delegating home care for the elderly to external caregivers? An empirical study on Italian data
Lippi Bruni, Matteo; Ugolini, Cristina - 2013
We study care arrangement decisions in Italy, where families are increasingly delegating the role of primary caregiver to external (paid) people also for the provision of home care. We consider a sample of households with a dependent elderly person cared for either at home or in a residential...
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Predicting the effects of a sugar sweetened beverage tax in a household production model
Bordignon, Massimo; Xiang, Di; Zhan, Lue - 2018
We study the impact of a hypothetical tax on sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the US households' nutrients purchase, welfare change, and health benefit. Differently from the traditional approach, Food at Home(FAH) is here defined as a "home" good instead than a market good and consumers'...
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A Reconsideration of the Sugar Sweetened Beverage Tax in a Household Production Model
Xiang, Di; Zhan, Lue; Bordignon, Massimo - 2018
We study the impact of a hypothetical tax on sugar - sweetened beverages (SSBs) on the US households’ nutrients purchase, welfare change, and health benefit. Differently from the traditional approach, Food at Home(FAH) is here defined as a “home” good instead than a market good and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872144
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Population and health policies
Schultz, T. Paul - 2009
The program evaluation literature for population and health policies is in flux, with many disciplines documenting biological and behavioral linkages from fetal development to late life mortality, chronic disease, and disability, though their implications for policy remain uncertain. Both macro-...
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Gendered barriers to formal healthcare utilization: Modelling healthcare demand in a lowresource setting
Cavatorta, Elisa; Janssens, Wendy; Mesnard, Alice - 2021
This paper develops a model of healthcare demand to study healthcare choices in resourcelimited settings with poor health indicators, especially for women. Using data from rural Nigeria on individual illnesses and injuries as well as the entire portfolio of locally available providers, we...
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