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The standard theory of optimal income taxation under uncertainty has been developed under the assumption that individuals maximize expected utility. However, prospect theory has now been established as an alternative model of individual behaviour, with empirical support. This paper explores the...
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Public provision of private goods is examined within a self-selection framework where production depends on labor supply of different households and the level of public provision. It is shown that productivity and wage-structure effects can create a role for public provision, even if preferences...
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This paper evaluates the impact of an integrated rural development programme on farming techniques and food security in the Gaza area of rural Mozambique. We examine the impact of a group-based approach, in a country with few impact evaluations of technol
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This study addresses environmental tax reforms in a many-person economy. Starting from a situation of uniform commodity taxation, a tax reform raising the tax on a good complementary to leisure or on a good that is environmentally harmful may be seen as welfare-improving as long as environmental...
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