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strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
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strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891763
strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895602
This paper assesses the impact of government fiscal policies on income inequality in Asia. It discusses the role and effectiveness of redistributive fiscal policies and quantifies the effects of taxation and government expenditure on income distributions. Panel estimation for 150 countries with...
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and poverty effects of the tax and transfer (education and health) systems in Cameroon. Broadly speaking, the tax system … is generally progressive but less so when compared with the benefits of education and health. The net tax system is found … to reduce inequality. Interestingly, while overall public spending on education and health are most progressive in rural …
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of nation-wide household surveys to analyze the distribution of public expenditures on education and health services in … and budgets. Education and health services for the most part are found to be distributed more equally than household … quintiles (e.g., school-age children in the case of education), none of the education or health benefits considered appear to …
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, indirect taxes and subsidies, and social spending (cash and food transfers and in-kind transfers in education and health). The … the country. When in-kind transfers in education and health are added, however, the bottom six deciles are net recipients …
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Despite our founding vision as a land of opportunity, the United States ranks at or near the bottom among high-income countries in economic equality and inter-generational mobility. Our tax code plays a key role. Inherited income is taxed at less than one-seventh the average tax rate on income...
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The mortgage interest deduction is often criticized for contributing to after-tax income inequality. Yet the effects of the mortgage interest deduction on income inequality are more nuanced than the conventional wisdom would suggest. We show that the mortgage interest deduction causes...
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In Uruguay the tax structure and social spending reduce inequality and poverty for the whole society (Bucheli et al. 2013). In this study we analyze the effect of fiscal policy by race considering whites, afros and indigenous. The main question of our paper is whether the reduction of inequality...
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