Objective: Childhood obesity is a serious concern for developed and developing countries. This study aimed to assess the level of support in Australia for regulation and to assess whether systematic differences occur between individuals who support increased regulation and individuals who oppose it. Methods: An online survey (n = 563) was used to assess parental/caregiver preferences for taxati...

Family Bargaining and Taxes: A Prolegomenon to the Analysis of Joint Taxation Does joint taxation disadvantage women? To answer that question, this paper begins by reviewing unitary and bargaining models of intrafamily allocation, and then discusses the determinants of "bargaining power" in a world without taxes. It argues that wage rates rather than earnings are determinants of bargaining powe...

This paper examines a dynamic model of nonlinear income taxation in which the government cannot commit to its future tax policy, and individuals are quasihyperbolic discounters who cannot commit to future consumption plans. The government has both paternalistic and redistributive objectives, and therefore uses its taxation powers to maximize a utilitarian social welfare function that reflects i...

OBJECTIVE To assess critically the scope for public health nutrition taxation within the framework of the global tax reform agenda. DESIGN Review of the tax policy literature for global policy priorities relevant to public health nutrition taxation; critical analysis of proposals for public health nutrition taxation judged against the global agenda for tax reform. SETTING The global tax ref...

BACKGROUND This cohort study examined the association between taxation categories of long-term care insurance premiums and survival among elderly Japanese. METHODS A total of 3000 participants aged 60 years or older were randomly recruited in Y City, Japan in 2002, of whom 2964 provided complete information for analysis. Information on income level, mobility status, medical status, and vital ...

In this paper we empirically derive the welfare effects of a shift from joint taxation with full income splitting to a revenue neutral system of individual taxation in Germany. For the empirical welfare evaluation we estimate the preference heterogeneity in the population and use normative welfare concepts proposed in Fleurbaey (2006) to solve the difficulties of comparison between, and aggrega...

Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ability as low like redistributive taxation because of the transfers it generates. Those who see their ability as high may also like redistributive ta...

Holistic, quality, and sustainability-based inventory policy for perishable items may prove to be a game-changer amid great concern over the carbon footprint global economic crises. In this paper, first-in-first-out (FIFO) last-in-first-out (LIFO) dispatching policies have been used examine effect of quality on fresh products' sales mind sustainability concern. The these products worsens with a...

We study the low frequency comovements in unemployment, inflation and the federal funds rate in the U.S. From 1970 through 1979 all three series trended up together; after 1979 they all trended down. The conventional explanation for the buildup of inflation in the 1970s is that the Fed reacted to an increase in the natural rate of unemployment by conducting an overly passive monetary policy. We...

The warning of the emergence a global recession in 2023 is center attention for all countries world. issue reinforced by many financial institutions world that have joined call this issue. This stems from increase interest rates to reduce inflation. Many economic observers are opinion Indonesia far recession, but does not mean will an impact on Indonesia, especially area ​​taxation. purpose stu...