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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w8840 |
来源ID | Working Paper 8840 |
Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies | |
Pedro Carneiro; Karsten T. Hansen; James J. Heckman | |
发表日期 | 2002-03-21 |
出版年 | 2002 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of social programs. This research advances the economic policy evaluation literature beyond estimating assorted mean impacts to estimate distributions of outcomes generated by different policies and determine how those policies shift persons across the distributions of potential outcomes produced by them. Our approach enables analysts to evaluate the distributional effects of social programs without invoking the 'Veil of Ignorance' assumption often used in the literature in applied welfare economics. Our methods determine which persons are affected by a given policy, where they come from in the ex-ante outcome distribution and what their gains are. We apply our methods to analyze two proposed policy reforms in American education. These reforms benefit the middle class and not the poor. |
主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w8840 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/566447 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pedro Carneiro,Karsten T. Hansen,James J. Heckman. Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies. 2002. |
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