Effects of sex preference on investments in children`s human capital, bequests and fertility are studied, with and without sex selection, in a model based on parental altruism. Both pure sex preference, a feature of the parental utility function, and indirect preference, which arises from...

Average marginal tax rates (AMTRs), and the dispersion of marginal tax rates across income groups, for Canada over 1947-91 are reported. Federal AMTRs fluctuated with little trend from 1947 to the mid-1960s, rose to the mid-1970s, fell, and then rose from the early 1980s through to 1991. Federal...

The Gini coefficient is based on the sum of pairwise income differences, which can be decomposed into separate sums for individuals. Differences with poorer people represent an individual's advantage, while those with richer people constitute deprivation. Weighting deprivation and advantage...