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Pozen, David - 2007

If charity begins at home, scholarship on the charitable deduction has stayed at home. In the vast legal literature, few authors have engaged the distinction between charitable contributions that are meant to be used within the United States and charitable contributions that are meant to be used...

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The Pros and Cons of Taxing Sweetened Beverages Based on Sugar Content

Francis, Norton - 2017

Governments are starting to use taxes to discourage consumption of sugary drinks. Those taxes typically scale with drink volume. But sugar content varies widely. This report analyses the potential benefits and costs of scaling these taxes to sugar content. Taxes based on sugar content reduce...

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Estimating the Social Cost of Congestion Using the Bottleneck Model

Kim, Jinwon - 2019

This paper uses the bottleneck model of Vickrey (1969) to empirically measure the social cost of traffic congestion in the US. Using a detailed trip-level data, we estimate extra travel time over and above hypothetical free-flow travel time, which we call "queuing time", for each average commute...

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An Optimal Rice Policy for Sierra Leone : Balancing Consumer and Producer Welfare

Graham, Errol George - 2020

, simulations suggest that an optimal policy path to balance consumer and producer welfare and meet the higher societal objective of …

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The Australian SGL System : A Community Balance Sheet Analysis

Evans, John R. - 2020

The Australian SGL system impacts many aspects of Australians' well-being through reduced wages to fund the SGL contributions, an enhanced retirement standard of living, government costs of the Age Pension system, employment in the financial services industry and providing a pool of capital for...

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Can Stimulus Checks Boost an Economy Under COVID-19? Evidence from South Korea

Kim, Moon Jung - 2020

Various countries have implemented transfer programs to individuals since the Covid-19 outbreaks. However, the extent to which such transfers alleviate economic recessions is unclear. This paper analyzes a South Korean program, which provided vouchers redeemable only at small local businesses....

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The Effect on Wealth & Income Inequality of the Pillar 2 Component of the Australian Retirement System

Evans, John R. - 2020

system would have been to perpetuate wealth and income inequality in the pre-retirement phase into the post retirement phase … significantly reduce the inequality between the highest and lowest income groups. The higher income groups however remain the major … inequality from the introduction of the Pillar 2 system …

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Water Metering in England and Wales

Zetland, David - 2016

Water meters are necessary for tracking leaks, using prices to encourage conservation, and allocating costs in proportion to use. They are not necessary when water is abundant or costs are covered by taxes or transfers. This paper discusses the move to residential water metering in England and...

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What Economics Can and Cannot Say About Egalitarian Redistribution

White, Lawrence H. - 2015

welfare function” misapply the economic way of thinking in a different way. (3) Other writers have framed redistribution as a …

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Uniform vs Differential Excise Taxation Under the Second-Order Approach

Ruiz del Portal, Xavier - 2019

This paper presents two arguments in favor of the sole use of an income tax for redistribution purposes. The first is that most findings on nonlinear commodity taxation such as Mirrlees's formulae for Pareto efficiency, Seade's results on zero tax rates at the endpoints of the scale, and the...

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