This paper explores the distributive impact of provincial budgets in Argentina (1991). Given that over 50% of provincial expenditures are financed with national transfers, the results can be applied to national transfers as well. The essay is highly speculative because quantitative analysis is...

This paper has two main goals. The first is to complement the Argentine mean income series with inequality estimates in order to obtain aggregate welfare series. Average income figures are estimated from National Accounts while income inequality indices are calculated from the Permanent...