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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Welfare Costs"”.
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Welfare costs of alternative agricultural policies in Austria
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 1971
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Family Cap Programs: The Future of Pennsylvania Welfare Reform
Welfare reform has been a highly debated topic since before the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) and continues to be at the forefront of many policy makers' agendas. Although significant positive changes have occurred in welfare policy since PRWORA's …
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Two Essays in Business Cycle Theory
… economic recovery. The second issue concerns the costs of business cycle fluctuations to an investor who chooses to invest in risky assets. The first essay evaluates the effectiveness of the "end of double tax" policy in stimulating an economic recovery by analyzing the transitional dynamics of …
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Essays on dynamic macroeconomics
… level of unemployment benefit which maximizes welfare of individuals. The optimal unemployment benefit level is hump-shaped as a function of the level of idiosyncratic risk. At empirically relevant levels of idiosyncratic risk, a much less generous system than in the economy without uncertainty …
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The Determinants of Microinsurance Demand in South Africa
… microinsurance can significantly reduce the welfare costs related to uninsured risks. Over the years, the take up rate of microinsurance have been low and declining. The study seeks to shed light on the determinants of microinsurance demand in South Africa.
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Tax expenditure and tax prices
… literature. Some authors have emphasized the welfare costs of tax expenditures. To the extent that tax expenditures narrow the tax base the introduction or extension of a tax expenditure undoubtedly makes the cost of raising revenue more than it would be otherwise. This kind of cost, denoted …
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Three essays in applied economics: an evaluation of Brazilian public policies
… impact on road accident reduction, and the welfare benefits associated with this outcome largely outweighs the welfare costs imposed by the policy restrictions due to longer travel times. The second chapter shows that the adoption of affirmative action by Brazilian universities increased the …
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Disabled people and communication systems in the twenty first century
… little more than a 'technical fix', cutting welfare costs,enforcing further segregation and distracting attention from the real source of disabled people's oppression. These findings highlight the increasing importance of more radical social transformation. The opportunities and threats …
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Evaluating Indonesia’s BPNT/Sembako and Village Funds: Targeting Accuracy, Poverty Impacts, and the Design-Implementation Gap
… to basic food needs while highlighting the welfare costs of exclusion. Although the number of rural villages remains the dominant determinant of Village Funds allocations, increasing responsiveness to poverty, geographic area, and geographic difficulty points to a gradual shift toward a more …
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Evaluating Adaptive Capacity to Climatic Extremes in Rural Zambia
… the literature on how climatic extremes impact welfare in the first chapter, the second chapter uses a systematic review of randomized and non-randomized studies to evaluate the effectiveness of policy interventions in ameliorating the adverse welfare effects of climatic extremes. Taken …
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The welfare cost and greenhouse gas emissions effects of sector-specific energy policies
… policies on greenhouse gas reduction and welfare costs for the electricity, transportation, and agricultural sectors relative to levels that would have been achieved by each of these policies individually. Joint implementation of the RFS and the RPSs can increase the cost of …
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Modeling economies and ecosystems in general equilibrium
… the order of $10 bn., which rival the policy's welfare costs and make 12-13% carbon abatement economically justifiable without considering any climate benefits. For ecosystem applications, this work demonstrates how the structure of economic CGE modeling can be adapted to construct a Biological …
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Essays on macro development
… workers who need to pay migration costs. In the second chapter, we take the results mentioned above and study the implications of climate change on migration. In our context, climate change's effects are two-sided. While declining rural productivity makes migration more appealing, …
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Fiscal Policy, Current Account Dynamics and External Adjustment
… domestic activity and enhancing household welfare, on the one hand, and reducing excessive fluctuations in external positions, on the other hand. Chapter 4 builds upon the model developed in Chapter 3 but focuses on budgetary-neutral fiscal rules that adjust the composition of government …
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Spatial dynamic groundwater regulation to ensure adequate instream flows for salmon
… for any purpose should aim to minimize the welfare losses accrued by irrigated agriculture due to reduced pumping. To this effect, prior studies have utilized spatial characterization of the hydrologic systems in question to spatially target water allocation between groundwater irrigators …
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Three essays on family structure and school dropout among adolescents
… and in turn incur considerable social and welfare costs to the economy. The data used in this study is from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, which has information on about 8,900 individuals aged 12-17 in the year 1997 who are followed up every year since. I use the first 10 …
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A dynamic analysis of U.S. biofuels policy impact on land use, greenhouse gas emissions and social welfare
… and fuel crops, food and fuel prices and social welfare. It first develops a stylized model of the food and fuel sectors linked by a limited land availability to produce food and fuel crops. It then analyzes the mechanisms through which biofuel mandates and subsidies affect consumer choices and …
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Is economic growth desirable? A welfare economic analysis of the Thai experience
… as it is the best means to increase social welfare and enhancing social welfare is a rational objective of society and governments. Economic growth increases social welfare through improving health outcomes, food intake and access to other basic needs. However, the costs of achieving …
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Optimal Taxation and Innovation in the Presence of Externalities
… and derives the optimal tax rates that maximize welfare while considering pollution. Income tax provides revenue for the government and results in welfare loss to those who pay taxes. This paper takes into account the fact that income tax also affects pollution through both redistributing income …
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DRUMBEAT© for arthritis “ a shared purpose” rather than a “lonely struggle”
… year, in addition to over $1.1 billion in extra welfare costs and lost tax revenue. Although personal, social and economic burdens of arthritis are immense they tend to be poorly recognised, with government investment considerably lower than for any other major disease group, with the exception …