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Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787161
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Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity
Ravallion, Martin - 2013
true value when there is correlated incidence heterogeneity. A case study for a large cash transfer program in China … data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate-a poverty trap. However, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395856
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Benefit incidence with incentive effects, measurement errors and latent heterogeneity : a case study for China
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530686
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Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity : A Case Study for China
Ravallion, Martin - 2015
In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China's Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457555
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Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity
Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - 2013
true value when there is correlated incidence heterogeneity. A case study for a large cash transfer program in China … data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560176
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Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
true value when there is correlated incidence heterogeneity. A case study for a large cash transfer program in China … data are deceptive. The program entails a nominal 100 percent benefit withdrawal rate -- a poverty trap. However, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974084
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Benefit Incidence with Incentive Effects, Measurement Errors and Latent Heterogeneity : A Case Study for China
Ravallion, Martin - 2015
In what is probably the largest cash transfer program in the world today China's Dibao program aims to fill all poverty … gaps. In theory, the program creates a poverty trap, with 100% benefit withdrawal rate (BWR). But is that what we see in …, and is also lower than the rate implied by optimal income tax models for poverty reduction. The paper discusses likely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024145
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A distribution-neutral perspective on tax expenditure limitations
Kaplow, Louis - 2016
A recent wave of literature, partly motivated by presidential campaign tax reform plans, analyzes tax expenditure limitation proposals. These reforms are often advanced not only, or even primarily, because they reduce distortions caused by favoritism for some types of expenditures over others....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581947
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Optimal income taxation with labor supply responses at two margins : when is an earned income tax credit optimal?
Hansen, Emanuel - 2017
This paper studies optimal non-linear income taxation in an empirically plausible model with labor supply responses at the intensive (hours, effort) and the extensive (participation) margin. In this model, redistributive taxation gives rise to a previously neglected trade-off between two aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011648435
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014
This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402108