The Efficiency of Race- and Gender-Targeted Income Transfers  

Oleh:

Cushing, Matthew J. ; McGarvey, Mary G.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Finance Review vol. 31 no. 5 (Sep. 2003), page 455-486.
Topik: income transfers; marginal efficiency cost; income equality; negative income tax; tagging
Fulltext: 455PFR315.pdf (132.17KB)

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In this article, the authors quantify the potential efficiency gains from moving toward an income redistribution system that bases transfers on membership in demographic groups such as race and gender. They compute four measures of the marginal efficiency cost (MEC) of redistribution under a standard linear income tax and under a policy that tags specific demographic groups. The authors find that a tagging system can significantly lower theMECof redistribution. At the margin, a system of tagging demographic groups achieves the goal of greater income equality at a significantly lower cost in terms of lost output.

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