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. This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of the distributional incidence of Turkey's fiscal policy to date. It … Turkey's achievements against peer countries. The results show that fiscal policy significantly reduces income inequality in … Turkey, driven by social spending on education and health, and complemented by direct taxes and transfer schemes that …
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The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
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We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal care. The sorting of women across career paths is endogenous and shaped by a social norm about gender roles in the...
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Education decisions determine a great part of future income. This paper argues that if education is financed by parents' current income a lump-sum tax reduces inequality if all parents have strict investment incentives. However, if some parents are indifferent there is a possible decrease in the...
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