Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
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Poverty-Reducing Tax Reforms with Heterogeneous Agents
The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows agents to differ in dimensions that cannot always be precisely captured within the usual money-metric indicators of living standards. Examples of such dimensions include household size and composition, temporal or spatial variation in price indices, and individual needs and “merits”.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economic Theory
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1097-3923,1467-9779
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9779.2005.00196.x