This report describes an extensive literature study and three case studies aimed at
reviewing accessibility measures for their ability to evaluate the accessibility impacts of …

The exact measurement of the welfare costs of tax and price reform requires a detailed
knowledge of individual preferences. Typically, first order approximations of welfare costs …

Tax avoidance and evasion are pervasive in all countries, and tax structures are
undoubtedly skewed by this reality. Standard models of taxation and their conclusions must …

The publication of this book is in large part due to the role of Canada's Inter national
Development Research Center (IDRC) in encouraging policy-relevant research in the fields …

This paper illustrates how one can use causal effects of a policy change to measure its
welfare impact without decomposing them into income and substitution effects. Often, a …

T HE MEASUREMENT of welfare forms the foundation of public policy analysis. A full
consideration of taxes, subsidies, transfer programs, health care reform, regulation …

In the Handbook of Public Economics, vol. 5, top scholars provide context and order to new
research about mechanisms that underlie both public finance theories and applications …

This paper reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for,
politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the …

In recent times not only have traditional areas of public economics such as taxation, public
expenditure, public sector pricing, benefit cost analysis, and fiscal federalism thrown up new …

It is argued that taxation causes deadweight losses–from substitution, evasion, and
avoidance activities–and direct, administrative and compliance, costs. Some of these social …