INTRODUCTION Little rigorous evidence exists on how health service utilization varies across socioeconomic groups after a user fee exemption policy has been implemented, and the evidence that does exist is mixed. In this paper, we estimate the distribution of caesarean section deliveries across socioeconomic groups following Mali's implementation of a fee exemption policy for caesareans in 2005...

1616 Standard economic theory tells us that the demand for children is influenced by the cost of raising children. Holding other things constant, a decrease in the cost of raising children should lead to an increase in the demand for children. As shown in Figure 1, the average value of the US child tax subsidy adjusted for inflation has increased from under $850 in 1980 to more than $2,000 in 2...

Acting as a cleaning and great efficiency fuel, natural gas has gained more and more notice. Reflect on the low percentage of natural gas usage in China, how to motivate natural gas production and usage from macroeconomic view worth discussing. Although carbon tax can be efficiently used to promote carbon emission reduction, the implementation of levying carbon tax might negatively impact natur...

This paper presents the results of research carried out within a broader study of the economics of charitable activity in conjunction with Mr. A. ABSTRACT Discussion of the optimal fiscal treatment of charity has hitherto been restricted largely to consideration of an efficiertcy (or externality) justification for subsidies to charity, and in particular. to the optimal tax treatment of charitab...

While prior papers have examined the impact of state exemption and garnishment laws on the average household, this paper is the first to examine their heterogeneous impact. In my theoretical model, households choose between three options: repayment, bankruptcy, and informal bankruptcy (non-repayment without the benefit of the formal bankruptcy process). The model makes two predictions about the...

Environmental protection is one of the tasks criminal legislation Russian Federation (Article 2 Criminal Code Federation). Acts that infringe on public relations for environmental and safety are enshrined in Chapter 26 most part relate to crimes small or medium gravity. This fact implies possibility implementing institution exemption from liability general (Chapter 11 Federation) with impositio...