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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Three Essays on Fiscal Policy and Redistribution
Abstract
dc:descriptionFinally, the third essay estimates the implicit social welfare functions of the USA and Brazil using PSID and PNAD for 1990 on direct taxes. Specifically, a non-parametric method is used to compute the density of the skills distribution and the social welfare functions. Under assumptions on the households' preferences the estimations suggest that both American and Brazilian social welfare functions are concave and Paretian; however only the estimated Brazilian social planner can be considered utilitarian.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Economics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Carvalho De Mattos, Enlinson
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Gahvari, Firouz
Subjects
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- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3242809
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85571