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Redistribution with unequal life expectancy
Köhne, Sebastian - 2023
optimal income tax policy using theory and calibration. A positive association between life expectancy and income counteracts … the well-known static pattern of declining marginal utility. As a result, the mechanical value of redistribution is … effects of the mechanical value of redistribution dominate, and the optimal marginal tax rates fall by up to 10 percentage …
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Age, inequality and the public provision of healthcare
Mitra, Anirban - 2021
between income redistribution and two forms of public spending - healthcare and capital investment - are determined through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012488447
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International migration and extreme health inequality : robust arguments and institutions for international redistribution in health care
Mackintosh, Maureen - In: The economics of health equity, (pp. 151-173). 2007
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Heterogeneous agents, human capital formation and international income inequality
Munandar, Haris - 2008
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Inequality in land ownership, the emergence of human capital promoting institutions, and the great divergence
Galor, Oded (contributor); Moav, Omer (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337362
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Inequality in landownership, the emergence of human-capital promoting institutions, and the great divergence
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - In: The review of economic studies 76 (2009) 1, pp. 143-179
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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy : another look at the economics of marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003901742
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Inequality in land ownership, the emergence of human capital promoting institutions and the great divergence
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003676225
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Essays on the macroeconomics of dual economies
Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005
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Income distribution and macroeconomics revisited : the role of fertility adjustment
Nakagawa, Masao; Sugimoto, Yoshiaki - 2009
This paper develops a theory in which households prepare for future education by adjusting the number of children they …
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