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Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation$
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James Mirrlees

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780198295211

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295211.001.0001

Population Policy and the Taxation of Family Size

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(p. 205 ) 9 Population Policy and the Taxation of Family Size
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Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
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James A. Mirrlees

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295211.003.0010

This chapter discusses population policy, mostly in terms of the natural policy for affecting population size: taxes and subsidies that are related to family size. The question that is addressed is: under what assumptions it is desirable to tax families for increasing their size? It is also noted in this chapter that despite being a difficult subject, people seem to have rather simple ideas about population.

Keywords:   population policy, natural policy, taxes, subsidies, population

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