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Contrived desires, affluence, and welfare : J. K. Galbraith's Pigovian redistribution argument reconsidered

Douglas, Alexander - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 23 (2016) 4, pp. 611-640

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Welfare distribution of collective in-kind transfers in education : an application to the extended schools programme

Angioloni, Simone; Wu, Ziping; Sherry, Erin - In: Applied economics letters 25 (2018) 20, pp. 1411-1415

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Paradoxes of social policy : welfare transfers, relative poverty, and redistribution preferences

Brady, David; Bostic, Amie - 2015

Korpi and Palme's (1998) classic "The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality" claims that universal … preferences for redistribution. We analyze rich democracies like Korpi and Palme, but we also generalize to a broader sample of … share and universalism; (2) redistribution preferences are negatively associated with low-income targeting; and (3 …

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Jumping the welfare gap in designing public transfers

Simonovits, András - 2017

We consider three transfer models with a representative individual who discounts the utility of the merit good with respect to the standard one's. In each model, a paternalistic government taxes the consumer and transfers him additional merit goods in return. The private purchase of the merit...

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Optimal redistributive wealth taxation when wealth is more than just capital

Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2020

We show how normative standpoints determine optimal taxation of wealth. Since wealth is not equal to capital, we find very different welfare implications of land rent-, bequest- and capital taxation. It is mainly land rents that should be taxed. We develop an overlapping generations model with...

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