Atkinson and Stiglitz theorem in the presence of a household production sector

Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari

No 14-510, TSE Working Papers from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Abstract: We show that the celebrated Atkinson and Stiglitz (1976) result on the uniformity of the commodity tax rates when preferences are weakly separable between goods and leisure does not hold when (at least) one of the goods is produced within the household. The result is restored if preferences are weakly separable in market goods on the one hand, and leisure and household goods on the other.

Keywords: Atkinson and Stiglitz theorem; household production; weak-separability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H2 H5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-07
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