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By constructing a social welfare function that incorporates the explicit value judgments of Atkinson's measure of inequality, the paper develops implications of optimal income taxation derived using double limit analysis for transfers and inequality. The losses arising from transfers in the...
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Community-level targeting of antipoverty programs is now common. Do local community organizations target the poor better than the central government? In one program in Bangladesh, the answer tends to be yes, but performance varies from village to village. The authors try to explain why. It is...
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In the presence of means tested basic income for old age, households will tend to reduce precautionary savings to an inefficiently low level. We explore how this might serve as a justification for a compulsory public pension system. In a representative agent framework with two income types,...
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mechanism through which the pressure for redistribution can be highly non linear therefore providing an explanation as to why …
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and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy … instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints on redistribution and limiting the damage that ill …, while there are circumstances in which redistribution may plausibly generate efficiency gains, the likelihood that some …
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