Removing the veil of ignorance in assessing the distributional impacts of social policies
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- Carneiro, Pedro & Hansen, Karsten T. & Heckman, James J., 2002. "Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies," IZA Discussion Papers 453, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Pedro Carneiro & Karsten T. Hansen & James J. Heckman, 2002. "Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies," NBER Working Papers 8840, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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social programs; welfare economics;JEL classification:
- I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAM-2002-04-03 (Central and South America)
- NEP-LTV-2002-03-04 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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