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Optimal Income Taxation for Transfer Payments Under Different Social Welfare Criteria

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  • Robert Cooter
  • Elhanan Helpman

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I. Introduction, 656. — II. Formulating the problem, 657. — III. Two-person case, 660. — IV. Simulation of U. S. data, 662. — V. Conclusion, 668. — Appendix: data on distribution of abilities, 668.

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  • Robert Cooter & Elhanan Helpman, 1974. "Optimal Income Taxation for Transfer Payments Under Different Social Welfare Criteria," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 88(4), pages 656-670.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:88:y:1974:i:4:p:656-670.
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    1. Howell H. Zee, 2004. "Inequality and Optimal Redistributive Tax and Transfer Policies," Public Finance Review, , vol. 32(4), pages 359-381, July.
    2. Kemper Moreland, 1984. "Public Goods and Optimal Income Taxation," Public Finance Review, , vol. 12(2), pages 197-212, April.
    3. Shuanglin Lin, 2003. "The Effect of Public Transfers on Physical and Human Capital Accumulation," Public Finance Review, , vol. 31(6), pages 669-693, November.
    4. Fabbri Marco & GC Britto Diogo, 2018. "Distributive Justice, Public Policies and the Comparison of Legal Rules: Quantify the “Price of Equity”," Review of Law & Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 14(3), pages 1-23, November.
    5. Yunker, James A., 2016. "Economic inequality and optimal redistribution: A theoretical and empirical analysis," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 38(3), pages 528-552.
    6. Huizinga, H.P., 1996. "Unemployment Benefits and Redistributive Taxes in the Presence of Labor Quality Externalities," Other publications TiSEM 460a1387-fe15-4f62-b8a6-8, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    7. Stiglitz, Joseph E., 1987. "Pareto efficient and optimal taxation and the new new welfare economics," Handbook of Public Economics, in: A. J. Auerbach & M. Feldstein (ed.), Handbook of Public Economics, edition 1, volume 2, chapter 15, pages 991-1042, Elsevier.
    8. Mehdi Kazemi & Omid Bozorg-Haddad & Elahe Fallah-Mehdipour & Xuefeng Chu, 2022. "Optimal water resources allocation in transboundary river basins according to hydropolitical consideration," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 24(1), pages 1188-1206, January.
    9. Ramser, Hans Jürgen, 1981. "Optimale Einkommensteuer," Discussion Papers, Series I 162, University of Konstanz, Department of Economics.
    10. Allan Meltzer & Scott Richard, 1983. "Tests of a rational theory of the size of government," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 41(3), pages 403-418, January.
    11. Joel Slemrod & Jon Bakija, 2000. "Does Growing Inequality Reduce Tax Progressivity? Should It?," NBER Working Papers 7576, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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