The paper aims to study the impact of the introduction of a progressive labor income tax scheme over the real business cycle in contrast to a model economy with proportional labor income tax. While in most recent quantitative business cycle studies the proportional tax is introduced due to the easy tractability of this tax struture, the presence of a progressive tax on labor income, which is co...

This article describes a way to finance universal health care coverage that preserves much of the current financing system and replaces funds obtained from regressive sources with revenue from more progressive ones. New funding would be needed for 24 percent of health expenditures and would be raised through an increase in the federal personal income tax. Premiums are eliminated since their cos...

This paper points to the poor state of empirical measures of the quality of states, that is, executive branches and their bureaucracies. Much of the problem is conceptual, since there is very little agreement on what constitutes high-quality government. The paper suggests four approaches: (1) procedural measures, such as the Weberian criteria of bureaucratic modernity; (2) capacity measures, wh...

This research suggests that the evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a signi…cant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history. In early stages of development, the rise in income generated an evolutionary advantage to entrepreneur...

BACKGROUND A large and growing body of literature investigating the negative relationship between income inequality and population health (at different geographic scales) has developed over the past several years, although the relationship is not universal apparently. We argue that there has been a peculiar absence of geography in studies of the relationship between income inequality and popula...

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A lower time bound Ω(min(ν(x), n − ν(x)) for counting the number of ones in a binary input word x of length n corresponding to the word length of a processor architecture is presented, where ν(x) is the number of ones. The operations available are increment, decrement, bit-wise logical operations, and assignment. The only constant available is zero. An almost matching upper bound is also obtained.

The problem of classifying all tile-k-transitive tilings of the innnite 2-dimensional ribbon (and pinched-ribbon) is shown to be solvable by classifying certain tile-k-transitive tilings of the sphere, for all k 2 N. Complete results are listed for k 3.

It is standard to measure inequality using the Lorenz quasi-ordering, which can be connected with progressive transfers of Pigou-Dalton (Hardy et al.). Yet, it has been often claimed that the principle of progressive transfers fails to capture inequality in some situations. In particular, polarization is an important feature of inequality that is not modelized by all such transfers: polarizatio...

BACKGROUND Estimations of the demand for healthcare often rely on estimating the conditional probabilities of being ill. Such estimate poses several problems due to sample selectivity problems and an under-reporting of the incidence of illness. This study examines the effects of health insurance on healthcare demand in Indonesia, using samples that are both unconditional and conditional on bein...