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Gender and Redistribution: Experimental Evidence

Buser, Thomas; Putterman, Louis; van der Weele, Joël - 2016

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential …

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Tax-benefit microsimulation model in Rwanda : a feasibility study

Hakizimana, Naphtal; Karangwa, John; Lastunen, Jesse; … - 2022

This paper assesses the feasibility of developing a tax and benefit microsimulation model in Rwanda. Tax-benefit microsimulation can be used to explore ways in which national development goals can be achieved in a cost-effective manner, and to assess the distributional effects of more...

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Study on the Impacts of Fiscal Devaluation

Netherlands, CPB; CAPP - General Directorate Taxation and Custom Union, European … - 2013

The main research question of the project is summarized as: What are the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of fiscal devaluation for a selection of countries and the EU as a whole? The selected countries are France, Italy, Spain and Austria. The project aims to perform four tasks: 1....

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The LOTTE system of tax microsimulation models

Jia, Zhiyang; Larsen, Bodil M.; Lian, Bård; Nesbakken, Runa - 2023

distributional effects of commodity taxation (LOTTE-Konsum). In addition to providing descriptions of the designs of the three …

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Who Cares about Mortgage Interest Deductibility?

Gervais, Martin; Pandey, Manish - University of Western Ontario, Economic Policy Research … - 2005

We use the Survey of Consumer Finances to measure the change in federal tax liability that would result should mortgage interest no longer be deductible from taxable income. We argue that the elimination of this housing tax provision would lead households to reshuffle their balance sheet,...

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Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale

Peichl, Andreas; Doerrenberg, Philipp - Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and … - 2010

help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a …

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Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a …

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Proportional Income Taxation and Effective Progressivity

Ebert, Udo; Moyes, Patrick - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2003

When incomes are exogenously given, a progressive tax structure reduces inequality in the sense that the Lorenz curve of after tax incomes is nowhere below that of before tax incomes whatever the circumstances as it was shown by U. Jakobsson (Journal of Public Economics 5 (1976), 161-168) The...

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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it … income redistribution …

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Spend It Like Beckham? Inequality and Redistribution in the UK, 1983-2004

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using … attitudinal data. We show that the demand for redistribution, having shown considerable variation over time, is at an all-time low …

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