This dissertation presents and estimates a model that examines the economic causes of intergenerational welfare … recipiency. Previous literature in this area has found that daughters of welfare recipients have a higher incidence of receiving … welfare than daughters of non-recipients. My dissertation measures the possible economic causes underlying this phenomenon by …

instruments in altering diets and improving health. However, little is known about the welfare impacts of fiscal food policies on … society. This paper fills a gap in the literature byassessing the distributional impacts and welfare effects resulting from a … tax-subsidy combination on different food groups. Using the methods derived from marginal tax reform theory, a formal …

This paper focuses on the estimation of changes in economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles … rise in food prices has resulted in a welfare loss for all income deciles, particularly for those in the lower income … economic welfare (real income) on different groups (income deciles) of Hungarian and Romanian consumers following food price …

aggravated with the insertion of the biodiesel on matrix energetic Brazilian. Using as methodology the theory of externalities … and welfare, we analyze the welfare from the agents economic that show the externalities negatives deriving from of the …

Brazil has resulted in comparable welfare gains. Moreover, the evidence presented illustrates the often unsustainable nature …--the regressive and resource-intensive economic policies it has followed in recent decades, in the interest of welfare improvement not …

according to expected utility theory on bidding behavior. In Chapter IV I investigate the effect of competition among players …