This paper examines the consumption of water by households that are individually metered (single-metered households) and those sharing a water meter (group-metered households).

This paper suggest that the decomposition of the redistributive effect of taxation into vertical, horizontal, and re-ranking components is best achieved in terms of the welfare premium from progression, using hte abbreviated social welfare function defined in terms of the Gini measure of...

This paper uses a dynamic cohort lifetime simulation model in order to examine the redistributive effect on annual and lifetime inquality of a range of taxes and transfers in Australia. The model allows for family formation births of children, labour force participation of males and females,...

This paper considers the relationship between equivalence scales and the reranking effects of taxation. The impact on reranking of varying an equivalence scale is divided into two effects. The first, referred to as the direct effect, increases reranking as the equivalence scale used departs from...

This paper describes a dynamic microsimulation model of cohort earnings developed to consider redistribution during the working-lifetime in Australia. Microsimulation models were first used for economic analysis by Orcutt (1957), and are now commonly employed to undertake policy analyses in many...

Is gift-exchange inevitably to be crowded out by impersonal market exchange? The presence of a thick-market externality indicates that this is indeed likely to be the case. But reciprocity or gift-exchange induces social relations. The utility function is extended in order to take account of...

This thesis is a contribution to the field of psychology and economics. The two central themes are gift-giving and the effects of rewards. Within these themes, it studies questions like: Why do people donate to charity funds? Why are people sometimes less motivated when they get rewarded for...

Is gift-exchange inevitably to be crowded out by impersonal market exchange? The presence of a thick-market externality indicates that this is indeed likely to be the case. But reciprocity or gift-exchange induces social relations. The utility function is extended in order to take account of...