Efficiency Costs and the Demand for Income Redistribution

Christopher B. Colburn and John Horowitz ()
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Christopher B. Colburn: Old Dominion University

Public Finance Review, 1998, vol. 26, issue 3, 214-230

Abstract: This study includes the marginal cost of redistribution (MCR) in analyzing the adjusted tax price faced by the median voter. The adjusted tax price is then used to analyze the degree to which efficiency costs change the level of income redistribution provided through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The results of this article suggest that efficiency costs, on average, raise the cost of AFDC transfers by approximately 28% and reduces the level of AFDC redistribution by about 14.6%.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1177/109114219802600302

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