spending affect the long-run economic growth and welfare? Using an endogenous growth model where investment in education is the …-run growth and welfare. To finance public health spending at 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), a policy that … points and welfare by 14 percent. When health is both consumption and productive good, this policy reduces long-run growth …

elasticities and the welfare effects of gasoline taxes. A novel approach allows us to model a discrete-continuous household choice … income. We find that rural households have 30 percent more negative welfare impacts than urban households from gasoline taxes …. Finally, we explore different policies that can help to mitigate welfare inequalities due to these taxes. …

migration and welfare. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses treatment regression techniques to assess the … characteristics of Ghanaian migrants, the determinants of migration, and its impact on household welfare. Findings – The paper finds … welfare by drawing on a recently-assembled, nationally-representative sample of Ghanaian households. …

development. Originality/value – Results strongly suggest there is a blurring of the welfare and justice systems inherent within …

Purpose – This paper aims to estimate a set of welfare weights for Turkey, based on per capita regional incomes, and to … regional welfare weight measure is the elasticity of marginal utility of income ( e ), and it is estimated using a tax … Turkey is 1.25, and this value, in combination with per capita income levels, produces measured regional welfare weights for …

policies. However, evidence on which the measured distributional welfare weights are based is neither broad enough nor …/methodology/approach – An important component of the welfare weight measure advocated by HM Treasury is the elasticity of marginal utility of … paper will be of interest to academics specialising in welfare economics and to practitioners involved in social project …

Recent studies on the welfare implications of internationally mobile capital for a country employing commercial policy … such policies is welfare‐decreasing under CRS conditions. The analysis to encompass variable‐returns‐to‐scale (VRS) is …