Welfare Dominance: An Application to Commodity Taxation

Shlomo Yitzhaki and Joel Slemrod

No 2451, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: In this paper, we suggest a method which enables the user to identify commodities that all individuals who can agree on certain weak assumptions with regard to the social welfare function will agree upon as worth subsidizing or taxing in the absence of efficiency considerations. The method is based on an extension of the stochastic dominance criteria and is illustrated using data from Israel.

Date: 1987-12
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Published as American Economic Review. Volume 81, No. 3, pp.480-496, June 1991

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