This study examined how income and community belonging may interact to influence leisure sedentary behavior among Indigenous adults. Data were obtained from 1,304 First Nations adults who completed the Canadian Community Health Survey in 2012. Among average-income earners, a strong sense of belonging to local community was associated with less sedentary behavior, a finding also documented in th...

This research was set to examine the factors influencing the willingness and the likelihood of Ghanaians to accept the capitation payment system under the National Health Insurance Scheme. Data was collected through the random sampling method in all the ten regions of Ghana. A probit estimation with marginal effects was adopted to examine the factors influencing the willingness and the likeliho...

The taxation of high-income earners is of importance to every country and is the subject of a considerable amount of recent academic research. Such high-income earners contribute substantial amounts of tax and generate significant positive spillovers, but are also highly mobile: a 1% increase in the top marginal income tax rate increases outmigrations by around 1.5 to 3%. We review research int...

Each year, the United States Internal Revenue Service identifies taxpayers who may have erroneously claimed Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) benefits and audits them through a mail correspondence process to verify their claims. This paper exploits random variation arising from certain aspects of audit selection estimate impacts these EITC on taxpayer behaviors. In years after being audited, are ...

We model high income earners as sellers of quality services in a competitive assignment framework. Sellers (high income earners) are differentiated by ability; buyers by their taste for the service. There is assortative matching of buyers and sellers. We show that conventional optimal tax formulas are modified both by a social concern for buyers and an altered mapping of the talent into the inc...

Increasing socio-economic status is associated with increasing levels of subjective well-being. Subjective well-being is in turn associated with physical and mental health. In this study, socio-economic gradients in subjective well-being are investigated in a large cross-section of the British population. Higher socioeconomic groups are more satisfied with life and have fewer psychosomatic symp...

We study the distributional consequences of student debt forgiveness in present value terms, accounting for differences repayment behavior across earnings distribution. Full or partial is regressive because high earners took larger loans, but also because, low earners, balances greatly overstate benefits cancellation. Consequently, would benefit top decile as much bottom three deciles combined....

The issue of retiree income is important in a time of proposed Social Security reform. In 1996, for example, the shares of aggregate income for those aged 65 or older were, on average, 40.3 percent from Social Security, 18.5 percent from employer pensions, 20 percent from employment, and 21.1 percent from assets and other forms of income. Integration of pension income with Social Security incom...