Documents et rapports
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Welfare Analysis of Changing Notches: Evidence from Bolsa Família (anglais)
This paper develops a framework to bound the welfare impacts of reforms to notches using two sufficient statistics: (1) the number of households bunching at the old notch who move toward the new notch...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10117 Date du document: 5 juillet 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bergstrom,Katy Ann,Dodds,William,Robles Rios,Juan Carlos
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Optimal Taxation with Multiple Dimensions of Heterogeneity (anglais)
This paper develops a general theory of optimal income taxation with multiple dimensions of agent heterogeneity. The main technical hurdle in developing this theory is the possibility that individuals...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9572 Date du document: 8 mars 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bergstrom,Katy Ann,Dodds,William
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The Targeting Benefit of Conditional Cash Transfers (anglais)
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a popular type of social welfare program that make payments to households conditional on human capital investments in children. Compared to unconditional cash transfers...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9101 Date du document: 6 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bergstrom,Katy Ann,Dodds,William
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Using Labor Supply Elasticities to Learn about Income Inequality : The Role of Productivities versus Preferences (anglais)
This paper argues that labor supply elasticities encode information about the determinants of income inequality. In the theoretical framework, individuals choose labor supply conditional on productivities...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9102 Date du document: 6 janvier 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bergstrom,Katy Ann,Dodds,William