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-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased … future subsidy receipts, and (2) she can use the future subsidy to partially correct her own future behavior. We further show …
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effect, a future subsidy must be higher in present value terms. …
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instruments to address obesity are a tax on unhealthy foods (fat tax) and a subsidy on healthy foods (thin subsidy). We compare … sales tax without the fat tax and the thin subsidy. Moreover, this policy is the only one which unambiguously stimulates …
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Given that credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given also that intra-household transfers, and much of the work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education awards, together with a mix of taxes on parental income,...
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of a price subsidy and of a cash benefit on child welfare are then derived. In particular, it is shown that 'favorable …
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As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
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between household preferences, cost-sharing, and premiums. It applies this model to understand how the income tax subsidy … of a health insurance subsidy in the United States tax code, which enables individuals to pay premiums in pre-tax dollars …, encourages the purchase of more generous health insurance plans. Little is known about how the tax subsidy affects preferences …
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Theft rates from subsidized food programs vary greatly and strongly influence program efficiency. Unfortunately, the determinants of these variations remain understudied because the agencies that run these programs seldom publicize the allocations of subsidized food to local markets. We develop...
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Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an...
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