Optimal Income Taxation For Transfer Payments Under Different Social Welfare Criteria

Open Access

1 November 1974

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics

Vol. 88 (4) , 656-670
https://doi.org/10.2307/1881828

Abstract

I. Introduction, 656. — II. Formulating the problem, 657. — III. Two-person case, 660. — IV. Simulation of U. S. data, 662. — V. Conclusion, 668. — Appendix: data on distribution of abilities, 668.

Keywords

SOCIAL WELFARE