Artikel
Subjective wellbeing impacts of national and subnational fiscal policies
We study the association between fiscal policy and subjective wellbeing using fiscal data on 34 countries across 129 country-years, combined with over 170,000 people's subjective wellbeing scores. While past research has found that "distortionary taxes" (e.g. income taxes) are associated with slow growth relative to "non-distortionary" taxes (GST/VAT), we find that distortionary taxes are associated with higher levels of subjective wellbeing than non-distortionary taxes. This relationship holds when we control for macro-economic variables and country fixed effects. If this relationship is causal, it would offer an explanation as to why governments pursue these policies that harm economic growth. We find that richer people's subjective wellbeing is less harmed by indirect taxes than people with lower incomes, while "unproductive expenditure" is associated with higher wellbeing for the middle class relative to others, possibly reflecting middle class capture. We see little evidence for differential effects of fiscal policy on people living in different sized settlements. Devolving a portion of expenditure to subnational government is associated with higher subjective wellbeing but devolving tax collection to subnational government is associated with monotonically lower subjective wellbeing.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: REGION ; ISSN: 2409-5370 ; Volume: 3 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 1 ; Pages: 43-69 ; Louvain-la-Neuve: European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Welfare Economics: General
Fiscal Policy
National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: General
Comparative Studies of Countries
- Thema
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Subjective wellbeing
Fiscal policy
Decentralised government
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Grimes, Arthur
Ormsby, Judd
Robinson, Anna
Wong, Siu Yuat
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Veröffentlichung
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European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
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Louvain-la-Neuve
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2016
- DOI
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doi:10.18335/region.v3i1.121
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Grimes, Arthur
- Ormsby, Judd
- Robinson, Anna
- Wong, Siu Yuat
- European Regional Science Association (ERSA)
Entstanden
- 2016
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