The Optimal Income Tax When Poverty Is a Public "Bad"
The author considers poverty as an aggregate negative externality that affects people in different ways, depending on their aversion to poverty. If society is on average averse to poverty, then the optimal income tax schedule displays negative marg...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2000/01/439012/optimal-income-tax-poverty-public-bad http://hdl.handle.net/10986/19854 |