The main objective of this empirical dissertation is to understand the effects of comparison income on individual well-being. In order to do this, elements of the value function of prospect theory (Kahneman and Tverky, ), ...

This paper uses data from individual income tax returns to explore the redistributive effect of personal income tax in Ecuador between 2007 and 2011. Following common practice in tax incidence analysis, we first compute ...

Tax losses are a very important determining factor in taxable income. His lower tax income for the year has a significant impact on the fiscal result obtained, which can reduce or at any given not exist currently producing ...

This paper estimates the distributional effects that would result from eliminating the differential tax treatment of business and personal income in the Chilean tax system, as well as from the elimination of the main ...

Purpose. This study aims to determine whether there is an effect of internal and public debt on income inequality in Kenya for the period 1970–2018. Design/methodology/approach: The relationship is examined by using the ...

The well-known socioeconomic gradient in health does not imply that income inequality by itself has any effect on well-being. However, there is evidence of a positive association between income inequality and adolescent ...

Objective: The article examines the role of family income on the relationship between change in symptomatic burden and change in life satisfaction during six sessions of naturalistically delivered individual psychotherapy. ...

This paper estimates the distributional effects that would result from eliminating the differential tax treatment of business and personal income in the Chilean tax system, as well as from the elimination of the main ...