Poverty-Reducing and Welfare-Improving Marginal Public Price and Price Cap Reforms

Energy price disparity and public welfare

The differences in the price of energy to economic sectors are linked to a number of system parameters and to public welfare. There are large disparities in energy prices within states when comparing residential and industrial prices although neoclassical economics predicts one price in markets. The large disparities between the two sectors across states negatively affects the efficiency of res...

7 A Welfare Analysis of the Price System Reforms’ Effects on Poverty in Tunisia

Food Price Change and its Welfare Impact on Iranian Households

Iran has experienced high food prices in recent years. This paper examines the welfare impacts of rising major food groups' prices on Iranian urban households using Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) approach. The elasticity coefficients derived from QUAIDS are used to estimate Compensated Variations (CV).The study uses Iranian Household Expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS) raw data,...

Reducing Welfare Dependency and Poverty

The purpose of this paper Is to Investigate empirically two Important questions concerning chi Id support enforcement~ Ftrst, what Is the Impact of receiving chi Id support on welfare dependency and poverty? Second, howeffective are current child support enfor,cement proced~res? The a~alysls utilizes data from the 1979 AFDC Recipient Characteristics Study and the March/Apr I J 1982 Current Popu...

Money, price dispersion and welfare

We introduce heterogeneous preferences into a tractablemodel ofmonetary search to generate price dispersion, and then examine the effects of money growth on price dispersion and welfare. With buyers’ search intensity fixed, we find that money growth increases the range of (real) prices and lowers welfare as agents shift more of their consumption to less desirable goods.When buyers’search intens...