Public Goods and the Distribution of Income

Kaplow, Louis

Public Goods and the Distribution of Income

No 9842, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This article addresses conceptual issues concerning the distributive incidence of public goods. Solutions depend on the specific purposes for asking the question of distributive incidence notably, assessing the extent to which various public goods should be provided, determining how the provision of public goods affects the desirability of income redistribution, and providing a meaningful description of the distribution of well-being. In the course of the analysis, a simple and intuitive version of the benefit principle of taxation (qualitatively different from those commonly advanced in pertinent literatures) is presented, and some of the problems confronting empirical attempts to measure the distributive incidence of public goods are resolved.

JEL-codes: D31 H21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-07
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Published as Kaplow, Louis. "Public Goods And The Distribution Of Income," European Economic Review, 2006, v50(7,Oct), 1627-1660.

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