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The Economic Approach to Personality, Character and Virtue

Heckman, James J.; Galaty, Bridget; Tian, Haihan - 2023

This chapter presents an economic approach to character and personality traits with an application to the study of virtue. Economists interpret psychological traits, including character traits and virtue, as strategies that shape responses to situations (actions) determined by underlying...

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Intended and Unintended Effects of E-cigarette Taxes on Youth Tobacco Use

Abouk, Rahi; Courtemanche, Charles; Dave, Dhaval M.; … - 2022

adopted ENDS taxes. We use two large national surveys (Monitoring the Future and the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System …) to estimate the impact of ENDS taxes on youth tobacco use. We find that ENDS taxes reduce youth ENDS consumption, with …

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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System

Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013

In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U …

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Fiscal Incidence on the Island: Grenada's Fiscal System and Its Incidence

Canavire Bacarreza, Gustavo J.; Gómez Aliaga, Guillermo; … - 2024

and indirect taxes, direct transfers provided by the social transfers and the school feeding programs, and in … on the VAT side and progressive on the personal income tax side. Furthermore, direct transfers make a modest contribution …

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Pension taxes versus early retirement rights

Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

encourage early retirement, they reduce the number of people paying taxes and increase the number of people supplementing their … rights.? The government?s receipts from the pension taxes or the sale of early retirement rights are used, in part, to …

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Assessing welfare accounts

Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002

uses a large panel of individual income data to examine how the adoption of universal welfare accounts may affect economic …

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Income taxes, property values and migration

Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can impose group-specific lump-sum taxes. If … migration is impossible, a utilitarian government may even transfer income from the poor to the rich, reducing the rents earned …

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Taxes, cigarette consumption and smoking intensity

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2005

This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration a metabolite of nicotine measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that smokers compensate tax hikes by extracting more nicotine per cigarette. Our study makes two important...

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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries …. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the … the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database. …

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The effect of taxes and bans on passive smoking

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - 2006

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke … that excise taxes have a significant effect on passive smoking but smoking bans have contrasting effects on non …

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