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Informationen zum Autor Nora Lustig is Samuel Z. Stone Professor of Latin American Economics and founding Director of the Commitment to Equity Instituteat Tulane University where she researches the impact of taxation and social spending on inequality and poverty, and the determinants of inequality. Her more recent work has focused on the short- and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on educational mobility, inequality, and poverty. Klappentext This unique manual provides policymakers, social planners, and economists with salient aspects of fiscal redistribution theory, a step-by-step guide to applying fiscal incidence analysis including the required software, a variety of country studies to illustrate, and data on fiscal redistribution for a large number of countries around the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis VOLUME 1 List of Illustrations Foreword François Bourguignon Acknowledgments CEQ Handbook Nora Lustig Abstracts Introduction 1 About Volume 1: Fiscal Incidence Analysis: Methodology, Implementation, and Applications 2 The Relevance of Fiscal Incidence Analysis in Today's World 3 Fiscal Incidence in Practice: The Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Assessment 4 Main Messages 5 Organization of Volume 1 6 Implementing a CEQ Assessment: How to Use Volume 1 7 CEQ Assessment: Data Requirements 8 About Volume 2: Methodological Frontiers in Fiscal Incidence Analysis 9 About the CEQ Institute 10 About the CEQ Data Center on Fiscal Redistribution VOLUME 2 List of Illustrations Abstracts Alternative Methods to Value Transfers in Kind: Health, Education, and Infrastructure Chapter 1: The Effect of Government Health Expenditure on Income Distribution: A Comparison of Valuation Methods in Ghana by Jeremy Barofsky and Stephen D. Younger Introduction 1 What's Wrong with the Cost of Provision? 2 Using Healthcare Consumers' Choices to Estimate the Compensating Variation for Public Healthcare Expenditures 3 The Health Outcomes Approach 4 Summary: Choosing among the Options 5 Insurance Value of Financial Risk Reduction 6 Conclusion Appendix 1A 1 Using the Spectrum Policy Models Software 2 Financial Risk Protection with Consumption Floor Proportional to Income 3 Concentration Curves by Valuation Method 4 Using Willingness and Ability to Pay by Matching Publicly Funded Health Services to Private Health Services 5 Data and Do-Files for Replication Chapter 2: The Market Value of Public Education: A Comparison of Three Valuation Methods by Sergei Soares Introduction 1 First Method: Schooling Is Worth What It Costs the State to Provide It 2 Second Method: Schooling Is Worth What the Labor Market Says It Is Worth 3 Third Method: Schooling Is Worth What the Private Education Market Says It Is Worth 4 Comparison of Results 5 Conclusion Chapter 3: Redistribution through Education: Assessing the Long-Term Impact of Public Spending by Sergio Urzua Introduction 1 The Conceptual Framework 2 The Value of Public Education Spending to Its Beneficiaries 3 Chile and Ghana: Differences and Similarities 77 4 Empirical Analysis 5 Conclusions 105 Appendix 3A Dynamic Fiscal Incidence of Public Spending in Education 111 1 The Recursive Problem 2 Intertemporal Fiscal Incidence Analysis Appendix 3B Instrumental Variable Chapter 4: The Market Value of Owner-Occupied Housing and Public Infrastructure Services by Sergei Soares Introduction 1 Literature 2 Methodology 3 Imputing Rents and Public Infrastructure Services for 2015 4 Comparisons with 2005 and 1995 5 Conclusions Fiscal Incid...
