Can consumption taxes reduce inequality in developing countries? This paper combines household expenditure data from 31 … countries with theory to shed new light on the redistributive potential and optimal design of consumption taxes. It uses the …

We use data from the Luxembourg Income Study in order to quantify the economy-wide monetary gains achieved by household …-size economies due to within-household sharing of goods by individuals living in multimember households. In most countries out of the … twenty countries we examine, we observe a decline in monetary gains achieved by household-size economies over time. This …